Resilience ... Random flecks of azure sky ripple through an abstract living canopy reflected in muddy shades of flood water rising. A picturesque scene that belies the fickle nature of this country's drought ridden interior. No sympathetic landscape here. Adapt or languish in self pity, defeated. The majestic River Red Gum stands in defiance, unblemished by a decade long severance from the life giving flow now swelling once again around its sturdy girth. And as if to ridicule nature's fastidious culling of the weak, a pod of shrivelled seed capsules flung long ago onto parched earth drifts...
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