Sydney — another smoky day

Bushfire, again, as the smoke blankets the city…Read More

Solomons journeys: Just a little wet underfoot

Negotiating the road to the Kastom Gaden Association’s office and farm can be an aquatic experience after rain…Read More

A domed home in the hills

AS it’s the first day of Spring 2013 I thought I might commemorate the passing of the cold months (which weren’t really all that cold at all) with a picture from my film photography days, a photo now some decades … Read More

Return — hut on a point

IT’S BEEN DECADES, I thought as the driver throttled back the engines to approach the jetty. Decades… and there was no jetty, no fast catamaran then… just an old wooden launch captained by a man in late middle age. Not … Read More

Journey through a defile

WHEN YOU next visit Launceston, put on your walking shoes, stretch your muscles and take the well-trodden walk from the edge of the city into First Basin. Irrespective of whether you take the low, easy track or the steeper, rougher … Read More

Contentment… a moment by a lake

SOMETIMES, you see things that somehow symbolise an idea. They might be fleeting sightings yet it may be their brevity that makes them so poignant because there is no time for enquiry to dispel impression.

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Three huts on a trail

THE HUT WAS LARGER than I remembered. Longer too. And was that metal table there when last I came this way decades ago?

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Sojourn

BUTTERFLIES rise from the road in front of the car as we slowly motor out… it’s as if they’ve been resting on the road warming themselves this cool, overcast afternoon.

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Town in the mountains

NOT LONG after writing this in 2007, Rosemary Morrow left Katoomba’s cold winters for the subtropical warmth of the Coffs Harbour area. A few years passed, then I got word that she had returned to the Blue Mountains. She is still there.

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