heliopausa

Oh, this beautiful country!  I spent the full day of New Year's Day travelling by train from one state to the next, and it was just blissful!  The land outside the windows unrolled in its totally enrapturing minimalist beauty -- the pale, pale gold of post-harvest paddocks, and always behind a dark green smudge of trees along the horizon, and over them the big open glorious sky...and all the way I read -- totally rivetted! -- The Curse of Chalion (thank you, Ruth!  for the recommendation!  I had gone to the internet and found a secondhand bookseller who had it in stock, and sought them out, and bought it, all on the last day of 2012.  :)  )

And now back to here, where the air is so clear, and the light is so sharp -- just to be able to breathe it, to see it, feels like a joy and a privilege --- and the sea!! where I swam last night after the heat had gone from the day, and then again this morning, at six, before the heat set in.  The beaches in Adelaide (where I am now) are ... also minimalist. :)  Not "scenery" at all, not dramatic, but long horizontal lines of sea and sand, and tufty dry grasses on the low sandhills -- clear, clear waters (right now -- after rain or stormy weather it would be different)  and white sand beaches, and the huge blue, blue sky, and such gentle beaches, so families and little children playing -- honestly, honestly, it feels like innocence, Edenic -- I can hardly (right now!) imagine anything more beautiful.

And I have a new laptop -- the old one died, taking with it my draft of a story for the NFFR-party challenge, and I have been trying to recreate it from memory (which never works -- gloom, gloom) and because it is so hot a day I have come to the library, which has airconditioning!  (ahhhhh!).   And so... back to it! I hope the year is going well for everyone. :)