Haiku VII

                                                 We are Here on Earth 

                                                   To Hug each Other with Care

                                                    The Rose has Sharp Thorns 

Meeting the new Girls

Let me introduce Betty, Maud, Esme and Henny-Penny,... the latest guests to stay in Tineke's Chook yard. They are free range Hy-line hens, cast-for-age at eighteen months....I picked them up late yesterday afternoon from a place not far from here but along an amazing road , high in the hills south of Willunga. I will want to explore those roads now through those steep hills as the views are amazing.The little female family has settled in already and produced two eggs for my breakfast....They are wonderful calm birds and it is a joy to have them..

The photo on the right shows the empty cocoon of a large moth and I will endeavour to look up what it is called. There are a lot of them this year and it amazes me how something so soft can wriggle itself out of the heavy, hard clay... we have had very little rain to make it easy for them...perhaps they are a metaphor for us when we live in such interesting times.....

Haiku VI

                                                     The Thrush sings Courage

                                                    Into Morning Hesitations

                                                    Kookaburras Laugh

Haiku V

 

                

                                                                Autumn vines greet Dawn

                                                                Loudly Lorikeets Waken

                                                                Silent Eucalypts