Photo a day challenge
Photos for Lovers of Australian Poetry
Photo a day challenge — Week 20: April 1st to April 7th
I am cheating with my feature shot this week and one later in the piece. I am selling off my old camera and so I went and downloaded remaining photos from the memory card before formatting it. I decided to use those photos to cheat this week because I really didn’t take many photos most days and one day I didn’t take a single one on my phone or camera!
Somehow, going through the photos on my old camera has inspired me to remember some Australian poetry, so I am going to endeavour to share related verses with each photo.
The photo was taken on August 17th, 2019 and shows Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus moluccanus) enjoying our birdbath in the middle of the drought that killed a lot of my plants. It was wonderful to see the birds enjoying the water we provided when things were so dry. Now, of course, we’re waterlogged following flooding, but that’s Australia!
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea
Her beauty and her terror,
The wide brown land for me.Dorothea Mackellar (My Country) — written in 1906
