- Driving home through the fire damage. For miles and miles along the freeway there is burnt forest. It stops at the edge of out town. If we had known how close and how extensive it was I think we would have driven to the next town along. The fire damage is on both sides of the freeway, and the strip in the middle is also burnt - no wonder the road was closed for so long!
-Poppet and Sprocket at Healesville Sanctuary. They loved how tame the birds were and that in some of the aviaries they got to feed them. As residents from my town flee the smoke of home we've been offered free access to the zoos and museums of Melbourne - a lovely gesture and much appreciated!
-Sprocket and Poppet inside a big, burnt out tree at the sanctuary.
-A nest in the platypus pond at the sanctuary. I'm thirty-three weeks pregnant now, and thinking a lot about nesting! It's getting so close...
- A graceful carving of a swan at the sanctuary. I love the wood tones, the curve of the swan's neck and how the gleaming wood catches the light. I'm about to start editing a novel I wrote awhile back centring on an Irish myth about four children turned to swans, so I'm taking the carving as a good luck sign!
-Poppet, explaining something to me.
-The kids, playing with spinning tops at their Nana and Grandpa's.
Joining with the lovely Em of The Beetle Shack for moments from our week.
This week has been a little lot chaotic and for a lot of the week my computer has been at the apple shop so I haven't been uploading photos. (Thank you kids for getting watermelon all over the track-pad! A more heartfelt thanks to the great customer service at the apple shop - they cleaned it up for free… and made my computer all glossy and new looking at the same time. Not a lot they could do about the scratches and dents of a lot of love and use, but it's so clean it doesn't look like mine!)
We just heard the wonderful news the fire in the mine in our town is 'under control' so we're doing happy dances and are deeply, deeply thankful to all the wonderful firefighters who have fought so long and so hard and in such bad conditions to put it out. The smoke this morning was worse than it's been in awhile… but it should all be cleared up soon!
I love that second photo with the bird on her head and her expression is PRICELESS.....too cute. So glad the fire is under control it's been a huge worry for residents. Regards Kathy A, Brisbane, Australia
ReplyDeleteYour chidlren are so sweet and those photos taken at the sanctuary are divine! Thank goodness the fire is under control - and hopefully that smoke has blown away!
ReplyDeleteThe sanctuary is wonderful - it's been years since I went and it was so great for the kids!
DeleteYesterday we had to drive through from Melbourne to Sale for a funeral and we saw all the black and rusty trees. The air was still smokey enough to need to close the cars ventilation so I can't imagine how you have all survived. I do hope the rain that met us on return has helped and that you get clean air soon. Such a basic precious thing! Jean
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear about the funeral. The air has been horrible, but at least it seems mostly over now - we still get the odd bad hour (generally when I've just hung a load of washing out as I desperately try to catch up!) but mostly it's pretty good. Clean air is WONDERFUL… we're slowly starting on the cleanup...
DeleteSuch magic moments! So glad things are looking better with the fire.
ReplyDeleteThankyou! It's such a relief that things are under control now and the fire's nearly out. There's only the odd patch of smoke now so I'm finally bringing out the baby things and starting on nesting!
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