dew drops
The casuarina tree sparkled with dew drops after the sun cleared away the fog clouds. Some more dew drops.
posted by utw at 11:52 am
28 May 2009
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4 Comments:
Good catch! You must be in the midst of Autumn down there. We're having a wet spring. The swamp (now called a "wetland) down in back of the neighbor's is more of a lake. Can't remember it ever being so full. It's a source of the mosquito infestation we are in the midst of. I've been trying to find Riverina on the map. Finding New South Wales is not a problem. What larger city or town are you near?
Thanks Dee. More luck than skill, I need the computer screen to see what I've actually captured and whether anything is in focus.
We have had a light frost the past couple of mornings so it is feeling distinctly wintery, the native trees are evergreen so we don't have colourful leaves then bare trees that I used to associate with autumn/winter. I sure don't miss the mosquitos, we had infestations too when the irrigation farms were in full production.
The Riverina: our nearest 'big town' (about 80 miles away) is Griffith, then there is Albury (2 hour drive) and Wagga Wagga (a similar distance and both places have our nearest traffic lights), I've put a Riverina link on the blog. The information re. rice production is out of date, the rice mills in Coleambally and Deniliquin have had to close (mothballed!) because of extreme low rice production, and Leeton has had to lay off staff.
I see, Riverina is a region and not a town as I thought. It might compare, in some ways, to our New England which is composed of six states. I've printed out Wikipedia's information to read later to broaden my horizons, so to speak. Have always been fascinated by Australia and New Zealand. Many years ago, I remember a novel taking place on the Murray River on a riverboatbut can't remember the name. I like to travel the world on my computer.
The book with a riverboat and the Murray River sounds like All The Rivers Run by Nancy Cato. Echuca still has riverboats (paddle steamer type) for tourist trips. Our farms here are irrigated from the Murrumbidgee River and I found out from the Wikipedia article that riverboats used to come up as far as Darlington Point, where I cross the river to get to Griffith.
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