remembering home

had my first little inkling of homesickness today. well, not really homesick, just wistful reminiscing of cool autumn days in Indiana. we had quite a bit of rain here last night and it cooled things off considerably. plus the sky has remained mostly cloudy all day with a slightly cool breeze, and to top it all off i spent the morning raking up damp leaves. the smell combined with the cool, wet weather had me thinking of all the times i'd raked leaves under a cloudy November sky in Indy or gone for an afternoon walk on a grey day thru Eagle Creek, or better yet, Morgan-Monroe State Park. there's something special in the air on a crisp fall day in the midwest.

oh well, it'll probably be 85 and sunny tomorrow and i'll hit the beach and forget all about it.

20 Second Tuesday 2

here we are at our second consecutive installment of 20 Second Tuesday! (wow, consistency. huh, must be a fluke.) and i will be the first to point out that this one is technically only 19 seconds. oops. whatever, i hadn't come up with the "20 second" idea yet, and sometimes my camera is inconsistent about how much video i can take at one time--it's about 4 years old and has been dropped too many times to think about so i'm just glad it still takes pictures at all at this point.

anyway, this week's installment is a look back on my very first day in Australia, Monday September 21st, 2009. i was in Brisbane and had most of the morning and part of the afternoon to myself while waiting to meet up with my friend Richard, so i went for a walk along the river.