Park to the east …

The section of park to the east of the place where I live doesn’t have a name but is part of the Bulimba Creek Catchment.

Took a walk in there yesterday. Interesting. The recent floods left piles of wood round the base of surviving trees and a sea of ground hugging greenery.

Bulimba Creek under there somewhere

I saw two lomandra plants and the eucalypts in the distance look healthy.

All else is exotic.

Ironically, native street trees are doing very well.

Flowering acacia (maybe) with a blue quandong behind it.

Liminal How?

Liminal space how, people will be thinking.

Liminal in that I am in a between space and time.

Up to yesterday I lived in a medium-sized all-ages complex with 90 separate households. At least 20 young children, 5 infants, and numerous teenagers whom I mostly didn’t see. A handful of elders.

Lived there for three years through recovery from chemo, through the latter part of Covid restrictions, walking and exploring nearby parks. Stone’s Corner was almost next door. I walked East Ekebin Park. Moorhen Flats. Bentley’s. The Common. Bowie’s Flat Park and all the little green places in between.

Lived there through the extreme disappointment that chemo didn’t also fix my myalgic encephalomyelitis, and so two years after the end of the chemo, my ME flared. A disease that once you have it you will always have it. Can be kept semi-controlled only by extreme pacing, strict dieting, a shoal of supplements and not catching any viruses. Continuing to live the Covid life, in other words.

Lived there getting more and more involved in Lego. thebrickarchitect.com ; AFOL. MOC. brickresales.com.au ; bricklink.com ; rebrickable.com ; all became part of my language. I packed a large stack of boxes, two wide four high, with the whole of Reet’s Brick Town in there, plus all the remaining parts and separate builds. Lol, a lot of rebuilding to be done later, I suspect. Bosley & Co will be busy for months on the repairs.

The place between, as I mentioned yesterday, is Isla House. A compact room, with a large communal living space at the back of the house, kitchen dining facilities, and garden strip alongside the outdoor areas. Pity that the weather is still so hot. Summers are spinning out. I’m very tempted to go out and get some cuttings for my new place. I wonder if figs will grow from cuttings?

Below a pane in the bathroom for my frosted glass collection, looking out on the perimeter fence and the garden section.