What Susie Saw

These ancient grass trees rise grandly from the side of Christmas Creek Road like a year-round festivity for nature lovers. They don’t look anything like traditional Christmas trees, of course, but they bring good cheer to those of us who appreciate the magnificence of the Australian bush.

It feels like a special occasion every time this rose blooms in our front yard. A dear friend gave it to us to celebrate the birth of baby Rosie last year. We are so consumed in living the Rosie life that the rose has to fend for itself, and we […]

ISN’T it a joyous thing to see footpaths carpeted in purple?  The specimen you see here in Beaudesert country suburbia just happens to be our Editor Keer Moriarty’s favourite local jacaranda, so I stopped for a picture on the way home from work after a late afternoon storm.

I WISH we could print the symphony of pre-dawn birdsong that accompanied this moment.  Mount Barney was impressive as ever, rising from misty and slightly smoky paddocks as we drove out for a bushwalk around her foothills recently.  The sight of that magnificent mountain always stops me in my tracks.

OUR early morning walk has looked different lately. We have been staying with friends while our tiny house gets gutted, to remove its cracked asbestos walls. I stopped to admire these glorious pink bushes at sunrise before we rushed back for another big day. 

Maybe sunrises and sunsets will just always impress and invigorate some of us.  I had to pull over and admire this one, on the way home from family daycare pickup and a trip to the pharmacy after a day in front of the computer, working from home with a head […]

You can’t see the soundtrack to this sunset in a still image, but it sounded as electric as it looked.  I stepped out of the grocery store that evening to a cacophony of corellas and traffic heralding a sunset worth admiring.  It wasn’t a quiet or tranquil experience, but it […]

Those winter mornings when it gets down around zero degrees (or a bit below) can be so invigorating.  Here’s a moment from early winter, possibly our first frost of the season, when the grass still had a green tinge under a fleeting light frost.  Our fingers, toes and noses were […]

Here is one of many spectacular views from the Three Capes Track in Tasmania.  This is the walk we were training for on all those early morning backpack walks around Beaudesert.  We loved sharing it with baby Rosie, walking for 48 kilometres across spectacular sea cliffs in pristine national park, […]