In Your Own Backyard

Even though John and I like to go all around Western Australia and have our little adventures, sometimes we can be like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz:

 …if I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard.

Well there is more to that quote, but that suffices for this post.

Some days, our own front and back yard provides plenty of entertainment.

Like the day I was watering the plants and the white-tailed black cockatoos swooped into the neighborhood, flying all around, making their typical noises, and when it looked like they were going to settle here, I dropped the hose and ran to get my camera. There had to be fifty of them, I do believe the most I had ever seen at once in our neighborhood.

There’s no place like home.
Which in my case feels like it includes a lot of territory.