Some of my earlier posts (August 2012) now have a photo to lighten their day.
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This tree gave forth a wondrous light that day, the rainbow appearing as if from the tree. The three trunks of this marvelous tree are like three sisters dancing -each in their own way ...
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Clouds have a language which is untranslatable, yet can be understood.
The road is single-laned - when a car comes the other way you put two wheels on/two wheels off the bitumen, but when a road train comes you go right off onto the dirt!
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The road to Alice is as straight as the course we steer on the rippling ocean, yet the waves are of dry grass and scrub. No rain, but they hold on to life.
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The wind blows here like a good sailing breeze, enough to raise white horses, around 15 knots plus. Instead of reacher/drifter we hang out the washing. The wind is so dry it dries one load before the next is ready, and so strong it holds out the shirt, inflated and creaseless, while it dries. No ironing required. Such are the little pleasures. And a coffee, made with our new capsule machine.
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It has been a long time since I posted anything here; Adrienne and I have been occupied learning how to teach in Engawala, 180 Km NE of Alice Springs, in the heart of the Australian continent.
My apologies to those of our friends who have followed this blog. Since I can can only upload one photo per posting, I'll post them one at a time, to give you a glimpse of the ocean of orange-red dirt that surrounds our "house-boat", our "dinghy" of a 4-wheel drive.
If you drove a nail right into Alice Springs on a map of Australia, I reckon it would hang about right on the wall ...
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