For me, Spring means Araluen again;
many, many family parties and dressing up.
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This week, we paid our bills by selling our wares at the 50th Dowerin Field Day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
A small country town with a normal population of 352, Dowerin explodes with the event, attracting about 20,000 people from all around the South West and maybe further.
Held in the middle of nowhere – actually on the edge of the Australian Wheatbelt, farmers flock there to check out the latest equipment.
Some fly their planes in, those in the know stay on farms which suddenly transform into B & B’s while others (like us), drive the 150 km there and another 150 km back on small country roads, each of the three days.
The planes are no surprise given that many farms are the size of small European Countries!
My sister-in-law also took the trip (not by plane but enjoyed our Winter countryside) and did a wonderful job of covering the event on her Perth Daily Blog.
Here in Western Australia, tomorrow is officially the first day of our Spring – also the beginning of the Kings Park Spring Festival.
As the article says, when I first arrived I made a bee-line for the beautiful park overlooking Perth City and the gorgeous Swan River, but it looked very different then and I can’t find the photos… so I’ll share a poem instead. 🙂
Sun kissed
Like a cobra,
I am coiled
ready to strike
any who dare
limit my growth.
Germinating new
species hidden
deep in the earth
waiting to bloom
colored with sun.
Tension-ed taut,
fire ravaged, I am
nature harnessed
before springing
back to life.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2012
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Posted in nature, Poetry, WA Writers, Writing, tagged autumn, Everlastings, Frances Macaulay Forde, Hardenburgia, jacarandas, Onion Weed, Poem, poetry in Western Australia, spring, WA Wildflowers, Western Australia on March 23, 2014| 3 Comments »
Although it’s Autumn here in Western Australia, so many of my readers in the Northern Hemisphere, are enjoying the first flush of Spring, enjoying the gorgeous flowerings of a new season.
Hopefully you’ll find lots of moments to be outside in the glorious sunshine.
Thought I’d share one of my ‘Spring’ poems and a couple of my photos of our WA Wildflowers
Western Australia is the only place you’ll find different species of Blue flowers growing in the wild.
Photo taken in Australian Spring,
our wildflower season, September. © 2014
WA Wildflowers: Everlastings © 2014
WA Wildflower: ‘Onion Weed’ © 2014
Painting Spring
Fluffy yellow balls appear
near long thin leaves
signaling an Aussie spring.
Jacarandas show specks
of green – soon purple petals
will carpet my patio floor.
Orchid-like the humble
Onion Weed reveals its
stubborn beauty
Forest search for Harden
bergia – purple creeper
where blue wrens flit.
No wonder I’m drawn
to spiky leaf and wild
flowers Everlastings.
Frances Macaulay Forde ~ 2014
Author: The Salty River Bleeds, The Timbre of Sand, Still Dandelions, A Ranch Bordering the Salty River. Alum: Palomar College, Columbia University, Bennington College. Follow on twitter @SmpageSteve on Instagram @smpagemoria on Facebook @steven.page.1481
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