Happy Birds

If I could be a bird...I would have chosen to be a kookaburra,... because they enjoy a good laugh.

On Saturday morning I was blessed to capture this family of three, sitting in our huge pine tree out back.
They had just finished a chorus of laughter.

Usually a family of crows claim this tree as their abode. However, the kookaburra is King of the Bush, just as we used to sing in that song at school...

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be

So, when the Kookaburra lays their claim somewhere, the other birds move away.
Being a Pine, and not a eucalyptus (gum) tree though, does make a difference.  
Because Kookaburras like to make their homes in a hole, way up in a gum tree.
Those crows almost drove me crazy with their cawing all day long.
Since the kookaburra's have been flying in, I haven't had to put up with the crows.
Instead, every now and then the laughing birds put on a cackling cresendo.

That sound always picks my spirits UP when I am feeling low.
AND... they keep the snakes away.  

Rejoicing in My World.

I open the windows summer and winter, because I love the outdoors..
This looks out from my dinning room, to the top side garden and pointsettia's.

Yes, we are in the first month of winter.. and the days are warm, but the nights are starting to get chilly.
We never get it very cold, so have much to be thankful for.

Its hard to believe that I cut back the poinsettia from out back and planted a couple of sticks that have become this!  What a beautiful show.
By the time winter is over and summer comes again, this bushy shrub will be even thicker than it is now.

I just had to add some fun... Care for a camel ride along the Sunshine Coast Beach, Queensland - The trip is 75miles long and looks out on the Pacific Ocean.. A white sandy beach stroll. People pitch their tents all along the national parks that look onto this view.
And the camels, when they were imported here to Australia in the 19th century from Arabia, India and Afganistan for transport and heavy work in the outback. 
Today over one million ferral camels run free. Camel meat and milk is used in various ways.

                                  Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.