Parrot vistors to the bird feeder this morning - a couple of young Lorikeets and a Rosella. Two young rabbits, a short distance from the house, scampered about our lawn, unaware that they were being observed as they played what seemed to be a game of tag . It was extremely hard to pull myself away from the window and start my trek to work.

After a brilliant sunset last night, the full moon, flicking on and off like a lighthouse beam, superbly lit a sky quilted with white cloud. Under a light wind the slender, spreading branches of our gum trees moved gently. Shadowed black on the underside, they shone in dancing moon - white when the light caught their upper surgaces, and whenever clouds crossed the face of the moon the branches made a dark restless tracery aginst the sky.