The trees and plants in our garden have been stretched during summer. Shedding all but their essential leaves, they’d closed themselves down.

The trees and plants in our garden are green and flourishing.

Earth Day 2020, on 22nd May, was especially poignant this year. As we humans navigate a dramatically changed world, where so much that we thought was permanent has become very transient, what remains?

My first introduction to Nuytsia floribunda was not a formal one. “This is a Christmas tree, Wendy,” my kindergarten teacher informed me. But it didn’t look at all like the Christmas tree that we had just decorated at home. I wondered if she was mistaken but didn’t dare to argue. After all, she was a teacher. She must know.

Yesterday was one of the magical synchronicities of life that, the day after reading this most thoughtful writing, I was blessed that an owl perched on my hand. A beautiful white-faced barn owl, named Ivy, and a superb predator.

A poem of thanks for all that Australia is today - all her people, all her land, all her living creatures.

In this video, Carl Sagan gives us a vision of Earth from space; how the tiny pixels of the image represent the sum total of all existence as we sentient beings know it.

Philip Hoare has some thoughts to share on our impact on this planet where we live...

I’ve been reflecting on the story of Easter today. About what makes some people so willing to give of themselves for the good of any other living beings, human and otherwise.

“The words humus, humble and human have the same root.”

“The greatest form has no shape.” ......Lao-tzu. I am very much enjoying a journey with Barry Lopez, while reading his book “Arctic Dreams”.

"Being thoughtful about our Earth." I’ve just finished reading a remarkable book: “Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World” by Dorrik Stow.

“We can always learn new ways to be more responsible!” This morning I walked in Bold Park, enjoying the early morning sunshine and busy-ness of the birds.

Sitting in a cafe, I was waiting for someone whom I'd arranged to meet here. The tree stood tall outside, its leaves glistening in the sunlight. I loved the way the rustling leaves on our eucalyptus trees catch the light and send it on its sparkling way. Birds called as they flitted among the branches. Each tree supports so much life!

The Yangtze river dolphin has been declared extinct – Washington Post. Does this matter?

While watching a TV show on the “Space Race,” I pondered on the experiences of the astronauts who left our earth for a time.

Last night my husband Rob and I watched the Fremantle Dockers play the Sydney Swans in the Aussie Rules semi finals.

I welcome you to these Messages from Mother Earth, from precious times on and near the ocean…