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Geraldton? Wind. Wind. Wind. And a huge gum tree growing parallel to the ground to prove it, its foliage spilling out over the grass. Randolph Stowe described the tree as being like a woman leaning forward while washing her long hair. As to this romantic landscape thread... I've written a lot about the Australian landscape, mostly aligning an emotional concern (personal or otherwise) with physicality. I'm not into picture postcards. I write about the Australian coast. Towns. Cities. Whatever. Like John, I've lived and worked in many rural areas and on several properties, and I've found nothing romantic in what often happens there. Philip Hodgins wrote some of the best rural/ pastoral poems in this country. Roamantic? No. best Anthony