Bright sunshine-y

A week of rain makes you really, really grateful for the sun. This is the Queensland I remember.

Signs of home: II

Ah, Australia Post and Coles trolleys... this reminds me in a funny way of my uni days. Toowong and St Lucia were always littered with shopping trolleys abandoned by uni students who didn't have cars, and didn't want to carry their groceries all the way home.

And I still think red is a much easier colour for spotting postboxes than blue (think about it, USPS).

Signs of home

Little things I've realised I miss about Brisbane, since I've been here: kookaburras at dawn, lemon gum, magpies, heavy rain on hot bitumen, rowers on the river, and old Queensland workers' cottages like this one.

I'd love to know the lives that have been lived here...