I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! The most famous part Dorothy MacKellar's poem The Wide brown land for me - this is so true at the moment - a good portion of our country is in severe drought - This was Boonah over the weekend and would you believe that this is a Jacaranda tree, its supposed to be covered in stunning mauve blooms at the moment but it is really suffering from lack of water. Just after I took this image a thunderstorm rolled through so hopefully it will have helped a little.
A thunderstorm just teased this parched earth as it passed by and headed for Brisbane. Taken at Clifton on the Darling Downs in Queensland.
A lonely tree on a hill
