The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66913   Message #1114421
Posted By: Joybell
11-Feb-04 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Late Winter Garden
Subject: RE: BS: The Late Winter Garden
Can I come in as an upside-down gardener. Of course if you turn the map up the other way it's you who are upside-down.
What lovely images.
Here we have a late Summer garden. The parrots are cracking open Wattle seeds, apples are ripening in our orchard. My Spring baby Magpies are making friends with their wild family and soon the Magpie-batchelors will go off on their own. The Willie Wagtails and Restless Flycatchers have just raised second families - it's been a cool Summer - mostly. Our wild Native Lillies are covered with bright blue berries. Silver-eyes know just when the berries will be ripe and find their way here from distant Tasmania. Swallows are back again already - they only make a token migration - don't know why they bother really, they fly a few miles North and then fly back. Something calls them from the past. At night, when the air is cool - not cold, just cool - we walk around under the stars. Joy