Summer holidays by the beach. Lying on my stomach in the grass reading and feeling it prickling my legs reminds me of when I was little. Everything seems so much bigger when you look up at the sky from all the way down there.
PRUNING AND BIRDSONG
A lovely picnic in the Otways National Park with my parents. The air is so damp and sweet there and the cracking of the fire and birdsong is the only distraction. Dylan always relishes the opportunity to be a proper woodsman and pruned branches off the path much to my parents’ amusement.
ELUSIVE SAND
Today I cajoled poor old man Dylan into a river quest to get sand for my seed raising mix. Flooding around Grey River made it a little more of an adventure than my city slickers ways had expected and wet bums were enjoyed by all as we slipped over lichen covered rocks and through brambly, scratchy blackberries only to end up with little to show for our efforts. Despite a sound scolding from our gardening book we had to settle for finer, saltier sand where the river spilled oceanwards.
Gracie Dog enjoyed a seedling inspection, but she soon discovered there were much more interesting things to inspect. Meanwhile two naughty city dogs waited inside to be served, only to be disappointed, but not too disappointed.
MOUNT BOGONG
A beautiful foggy weekend camping at Mount Bogong. At first the walking was a bit tough because I was just coming off what seemed to be a summer flu (who ever knew such a thing existed, but I guess when it rains so much in December that picnic tables are underwater anything is possible). But walking slower did give me a nice excuse to admire the beautiful hills and eerie forests of bone white trees.
Dylan, decked out as an Alpine Cowboy, found a tarp floating in the river and that soon became the perfect little cooking shelter and nearby he spotted this curious little red flower like thing that seemed to produce rather a foul looking gundge that attracted flies. Close to sunset on our second day we discovered a sweet little waterfall that Dylan boldly, and I less so, climbed to the base of, where soft grass pillows provided a lovely place for a nap.