Christmas to an aboriginal community...

In 2011, the remote community of Gapuwiyak gave Darwin the chance to share in a Yolngu Christmas. For the Yolngu, Christmas is marked as a time to 'make present' ancestral spirits (brirrimbirr) and to infuse the living with a renewed sense of purpose.https://t.co/ifyXoHPWLp pic.twitter.com/4AN7aN4Nou

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020

an unusual vintage Christmas card...

A most unusual vintage Christmas card...
Interesting that the fur around Santa's hat + neck and coat cuffs is not white... pic.twitter.com/vzgFp9rMwn

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020

native Christmas plants for each Australian state...

Each Australian state has a native Christmas tree or bush...
6 Australian Christmas Plants https://t.co/c1nrsvdYGY
NOTE: The image below = Christmas bells in Tasmania pic.twitter.com/mAd846swf8

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020

giant parasitic Christmas tree...

Australia's giant parasitic Christmas tree in south-western Australia has showy orange flowers have been likened to ‘a bushfire without smoke’. It's a member of the southern mistletoe family growing as a tree rather than a shrub attached to trees. https://t.co/iqghZcXVGE

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020

fruit-stealing season...

In the early twilight hours, it's definitely fruit-stealing season on my peninsula... pic.twitter.com/G2IMGYtRUT

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020

no homeless dogs...

NO HOMELESS DOGS...The Netherlands is the first country on Earth to completely eradicate dog homelessness. Adoption is now at an all-time high in the country, with one in 5 Dutch adults owning at least one dog.https://t.co/TBeL0zb08C pic.twitter.com/4q85oAxqRc

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020

cicadas played backup...

A Very Aussie Christmas
From snow-blanketed Bavaria last year to Canberra for an Australian Christmas...'Today the cicadas played back up to the three Christmas carol albums my mum owns, their broken covers dusted off every year.' https://t.co/CP9gU3JKI6 @InterNationsorg

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020

from my sea world to you...

From my sea world to you...
The joy of my happy place... pic.twitter.com/UMOYrxzskA

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020