Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Zing of Spring



Who saw that pair of wrens out a-courting?
Her tail was cocked high and his was up too
From bottom to top twig, palace to zoo
They flitter to twitter, to wit and to woo.

[The wonderful watercolour painting of Fairy Wrens in Flowering Correa above is courtesy of Canberra artist Glenn Smith.]

Time: the Act

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