Happy New Year

I wish to say a Happy New Year.
The sun shone yesterday
for the first time it seemed
for quite a while
and when I saw the water moving quite strongly in the pool
I wondered why, until I saw this little fellow sitting up there
he'd been having a bath in the pool. After all our rain.
The tawny frogmouths from down south wanted to wish you a Happy New Year too!
May God go with you in 2011.

The situation in Queensland is pretty dire at the moment with all the floods across the state. Many people have been evacuated from their homes, including whole towns of Theodore yesterday and Condamine last night, all by helicopter. They say the affected areas make up the size of France and Germany combined. About 200,000 people have been affected.

Australia is really a strange land of contrasts. While we have widespread floods up here in our state, down south in Victoria and South Australia, after much rain this year themselves, they are once again having a heat wave and are at risk of bush fires once again today. Hopefully the situation there will be relieved on the arrival of a cool change.

May God be with all affected by these situations.