MERRY CHRISTMAS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT
posted by WendyAs at 10:36 PM
Sunday, December 24, 2006
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- Name: WendyAs
- Location: Any Town, All State, Australia
North American Family on the an adventure of a lifetime. We moved from BC Canada to Tasmania six years ago with two kids and hubby who worked in the salmon farming industry. We have loved every moment but our nomadic tendencies have called. We are going bush. Inside are the adventures of our year caravaning around Australia. We want to see it all!
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5 Comments:
Merry Christmas Wendy and family!!! Lots of love from the other side of the world! We really did miss you at the sushi dinner. Cheers buddy!
Merry Christmas!
Those kids are adorable. I hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas day Wendy. How do you like having a warm Christmas? We don't have any snow here in NY....only more rain! It's most unusual.
At this time as you have probably noticed the landscape in Australia fades to brown, and is fanned by hot Northerly winds”, although I note this year you may even have snow on Mt wellington. A surprisingly cool christmas-a respite from the Bush Fires !!
Australian Composer John Wheeler captures that reality with these evocative words as a Christmas carol, which I like to sing each year. “Orana” is an aboriginal word meaning “Welcome”. May your family celebrate with the carol of the birds ;
Carol of the Birds
Out on the planes the Brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like war horses prancing
Up to the sun the wood larks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas day
Down where the tree ferns grow by the river
There where the waters sparked and quiver
Deep in the gullies Bell birds are chiming
Softly and sweetly their lyrics notes rhyming
‘Orana! Orana! to Christmas Day
Friar birds sip the nectar of flowers
Currawongs chant in wattle tree boxes
In the blue ranges, Lorikeets calling
Carols of bush birds rising and falling
‘Orana! Orana! to Christmas Day
Just lovely Christmas photo!
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