a view of wetlands...

Hillview Community Reserve wetlands, Dromana... pic.twitter.com/QzrB9F0eJe

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

grooming duck...

A grooming duck at Hillview Community Reserve wetlands, Dromana... pic.twitter.com/93xxZcCNdp

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

poised wattlebird...

Wattlebird on my verandah railing in the Dromana Hills... pic.twitter.com/21V0L3AAkD

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

This image was taken in December, 2017...

I love the upward flick of the tail feathers...

shopping adjustments...

Adjusted lockdown conditions - little Dromana Hub Shopping Mall now directs shoppers to enter at one door and exit the other. That ensures people do not pass /face one another.

(In the image below, the mall's on the left of the carpark...It = a Ritchies IGA + 6 other shops) pic.twitter.com/skiyGIXyEu

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

if cats could...

I beg to differ a little... My little furball would choose to text back... and have plenty to text in the process... That is, she would text by her choice (what, when, where and why)...not mine... https://t.co/uE3xfkJlQv

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

love me the grace of boats...

Love me the grace of boats - afloat and even weathering and abandoned...But this one has a rather special colourful presence...afloat... Delightful photo... https://t.co/wrVnJwEeob

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

The Norwegian Jewel was launched in 2005...

Herbsttage...

The centre of our own peace is where the light pools best... https://t.co/igRGbIukcF

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

NOTE: 'Herbsttage', the title of this image, means 'autumn days'...

quietly live my truth...

Victorian news today, of more rising covid cases, in spite of lockdown -trying not to fuel fire further. Crying 'not fair' to+arguing with anti-maskers+the belligerent self-righteous achieves nothing, not even self-satisfaction...I'll keep my social/political truth quietly close.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 26, 2020

quiet, reflective drama...

Quiet, reflective drama in this beautiful landscape... and not a drop of blue sky or sun to be seen... https://t.co/rNJyRt7bi1

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 25, 2020

more 'Sarum'...

More Edward Rutherfurd's 'Sarum' today. I'm still wandering Old Sarum chapters. I've taken the 1st Journey to Sarum, 'when the world was a colder and darker place', (the last Ice Age was retreating), passed The Barrow 3,500 years later + now venturing through 2,000B.C. The Henge

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 25, 2020

beyond the prickly clutter...

The Sunday rain on my tin roof, insists that I lay in bed and think.
So I do...
And here is old Amos before me, on the ceiling:
out there in the gumtree hills,
drinking tea from a bush mug, held ironbark hands.
His pale eyes cast to the ridgeline, to back then...

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) July 25, 2020

Here is an enigmatic rising above the prickly clutter of social and political climates...
Always Tim implies that it is best to befriend those moments close and lingering...

The constants...
The soul mates...

And it is then that you gather the strength
To wage a stand against the more vicious intrusions in your world...
See them for what they are...

Hollow shadows...
Hollow
Aimless
Variable
Wanderers...

Rise above...

And see other blots as
Passing
Insubstantial shapes

Very very small
Aliens...