This sunburnt country....

With Australia Day is coming up next week and with floods and fires around our country, I have the words of Dorothea Mackellar in my head and I thought it appropriate to post these pics of what Australia means to me.

The outback cities...

Fires, so much a part of our summers.....

and of course the beach.

Our diggers

 In the north, where a river can be empty one day and a wild untameable beast the next

 Our tough but delicate wildflowers

 Billabongs and

Art in unexpected places.

Familyand everyone's best friend