rains and a tractor...

Late August rains at Nyngan NSW gave the opportunity for this amazing photo by Melissa Baker...Only a year before, Nyngan was drought-ridden...https://t.co/kbVZvPTy4C pic.twitter.com/B6Em3jRzSw

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

remote learning outdoors...

Conducting remote learning lessons need not be done indoors (if it's sunny)...A science teacher from my school finds a few sheep around is not necessarily a distraction, but a comfort... pic.twitter.com/GCfh6UB2Tp

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

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— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

strandbeesten...

Since 1990, Theo Jansen has been creating strandbeesten (Dutch for "beach animals")-constructed mainly of PVC tubing, zip-ties, string+equipped with mechanical sensory organs triggering reflexes. One beest can detect an incoming tide, turn, and beat a retreat to higher ground. https://t.co/d6WZJyPEEJ

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

beautiful Melbourne...

City mountains, but nestled in the 'valley' are real trees, a beach and waves of the sea...all bathed in the dusky pinks of early evening... Melbourne, you are beautiful... https://t.co/5qp103HIHT

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

a Spring happy place...

So nice to see that blossoms have weathered the onslaught of recent Melbourne winds and keep on blossoming...Spring is starting to be an appealing happy place...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

sunny Spring Saturday afternoon...

I received a couple of visitors this afternoon in the Dromana Hills...They seem to be enjoying my unmowed grass... pic.twitter.com/yDyROn15xe

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

Not too far from the ducks was a lone mudlark...who seemed to be happy in his own little world... pic.twitter.com/RCjo3yEgpq

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

Meanwhile, my neighbour appeared on his shed roof...Not quite sure what he was doing...He seemed to be preparing for a boxing match with that tall pipe...He wasn't there long before he wandered back to his ladder... pic.twitter.com/vSu1Q8OQkY

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

Fortune Kitchen...

This sign for a restaurant in Dromana always makes me smile... I think that there should be a children's story attached somehow...Great selling point...a restaurant with its own story...a mini-story offered with the menu? Many mini-stories? Read to children while awaiting order? pic.twitter.com/RUOdeMzHHX

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

a naked one...

And still, the Nepean Highway, main road through Dromana along the coastline, looked rather 'naked'... Such a strange sight for a Saturday morning... Melburnians may be weary of lockdown, but still they are trying to keep this vicious virus at bay + doing what they can to help... pic.twitter.com/OstPEYlBH8

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

a cargo boat...

In spite of bleary, early Saturday morning skies, I still enjoyed seeing a cargo ship plying Port Phillip Bay waters, sailing out of the bay and heading for The Rip... Perhaps there are still elements of trade happening in Melbourne's Stage 4 lockdown... pic.twitter.com/wnHcaFLTYK

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

waves getting on with life...

Early Saturday morning - a 'brief-as-possible' Dromana Hub supermarket visit, followed by a too-brief connection with the sea in Dromana... The waves seem to be happily getting on with life... pic.twitter.com/ZbNWpaBC4I

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

The Owl and the Pussycat...

It's quite amazing how much we remember learning and reading from childhood days...It only takes a Sam Neill to read a little poem...And behold...we know it... Half-forgotten maybe...but we know it...And we smile...Thanks so much Sam... pic.twitter.com/0iU70PJWKo

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020

The hidden stalwarts in the world at the moment are the Sam Neill's, dedicated to 'taking our mind off things'...silent healers of the world...I don't have fame to get attention, but I'm subtly, at times, offering healing hope too. Perhaps a mind, soul or life can be saved... https://t.co/33Q9NAbdBi

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 5, 2020