daisugi...

Daisugi (like bonsai) – Ancient Japanese Forestry Technique Produces Plenty of Lumber From a Single Kitayama Cedar - dates to the 14th century... https://t.co/Ss3DSRtb6G

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

and the weather is...

It has just risen, at 8:50am, to a 'toasty' 10 degrees centigrade on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. But add to the mix some vagrant winds, polka dot rains and some playful sea mist...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

-14.2 degrees in Tasmania today...

-14.2 degrees centigrade??? I can't imagine that...nor really keen to do so...Coldest morning on record in Tasmania today... https://t.co/jkjq8P7sf1 pic.twitter.com/qNMqG3pcoz

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

The previous lowest temperatures were recorded on June 30, 1983. Tarraleah Village, Butlers Gorge and Shannon in Tasmania all recorded -13 that day. However, the record for Australia's lowest temperature is held by Charlotte Pass, in the NSW Snowy Mountains, -23 degrees in 1994.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

platypus in the snow...

Unique! A platypus negotiating snow...and going rather well... https://t.co/UTmHmSZGSg

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

songs of winds by night...

The winds play a long and loud song tonight...many crescendos and just a few whispering notes here and there for some variation...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

Friday road home...

The road toward home curves and swerves like black ribbon.

I like the moment when the town appears from the green fields.

Today, as I reached the edge of town, the creek, the horses and
the paddocks were ready for me.

1/3

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) August 7, 2020

And before my eyes, my mother's grave, up on yonder hill,

warm and sweet in the cold August rain...

3/3

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) August 7, 2020

Love the gentle eddy of thoughts and feelings... melting together...

keeping pace, savouring the dimensions of these small and grand moments... 

no walk today...and buddha...

No walk today...It was a 'too' day...of the hermit kind...too cold, too many blustery winds, too much marking (I completed marking assessments for a whole class...yeah!)...So the only photo I have for today is of my faithful little buddha outside my front door...always smiling... pic.twitter.com/njAcPibNeR

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

beyond simple doodling...

Indeed...the breadths and depths and densities of some art are endless... https://t.co/f8cCYoHAtf

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

unsung art...

Unsung art of unpretentious places... Tim Ritchie is adept at capturing the smaller spaces in a grand way... https://t.co/wZEQrhIsua

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

a poultice for the soul...

and best of all... the poultice is self-renewing...if you let it be... https://t.co/I1yZknDUzw

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 6, 2020