River therapy
It’s been another crazy weekend here on the property… it’s been hot and humid with some juicy storms, the kids have been on their first days of the Christmas holidays and we have had friends visiting.
These friends are long-time institutions in our lives – one of my husband’s best mates and his sweet wife, visiting to help with some serious projects around the Granite Glen house. They are from Brisbane and worked long and hard on our projects (as you do on a weekend off in the country) and were rewarded with lots of swims, some beers (him) and a drive sans kids to the river (her).
Taking a break from our offspring (all five in the tender care of their fathers) we packed wine and camera into the car and headed off, to check out the Big Bridge at the river.
We took chardonnay (as you do) and soaked in some of the incomparable peace…
The only sounds were birds calling and water dripping from the bridge edge…
The evidence of January’s floods still decorating tree branches along the waters’ edge.
Green. Water. Wildlife. Quiet.
We decided that just a day a year of this, for every person in the world, would probably ensure world peace.
Or I might have said this long-held belief out loud, while she nodded (and wished I’d shut up to let her soak in the sweet nothingness of that moment?).
And then the soft drops of rain chasing us all home, to our families once more.
It’s so beautiful, I think I need to visit here more – but it was great to have the excuse to go there today.
8 Comments
debby
Deeply envious of your ‘nothing moment’. I want a nothing moment. Really badly.
Loved the pictures, could almost hear the quiet.
Margie from new york
Lovely pictures, so nice and green there. Are there crocodiles in that river? No crocs in New York, but you knew that. We do have a beaver, he is a pesky one always daming up the stream to try and make a lake. The highway dept. keeps knocking the dam down and he keeps building it up. He is a very persistant little bugger.
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Kelly
What a lovely spot, and it looks warm and inviting to me. (can you tell I don’t like cold weather?!)
Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend with your friends.
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KAddy
Ahhhh the serenity…..
Fleur McDonald
I’m coming to visit. I need some down time…
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Leenie
Camera and wine–don’t leave home without them. Good friends and a quiet river–recipe for peace.
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BB
Heh – it is serene Fleur… but I DID mention all the work that happened before I shared this, didn’t I? Downtime in this part of the world has to be earned!!!
Margie – no crocs, but apparently some pretty fine eels. And (according to my very imaginative son) a mud monster or two (related to Loch Ness monsters I am guessing).
😉
BB
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Fleur McDonald
I reckon I’ve earnt the down time – you just haven’t been here to see it! And I’d make myself useful when I got there – I can turn my hand to most things!
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