We woke to an unusual alarm the next morning. Some of the cows in the next paddock crying, crying from the early hours. The poor things, it was weaning time, the neighbour said their calves had been taken the previous day.
Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
What a sad photo - but it's really beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI have never lived near cows before to know about these things. I agree the misty morning captured her sad cries well.
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