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Ruffey Lake Park, April 10 After the grey day of rain passes the creek soon subsides again. The bank grasses lie shining smoothly groomed all one way. Downstream the lake, refreshed, seems to have filled slightly. I and my dogs inhale deeply, note the ducks, exhale lightly. Magpie cadences share the fresh air waves with kookaburras' angular signatures. Jesus with his annual Passion came this way yesterday, Palm Sunday. I saw from my front door the crimson-cloaked centurion and his squad march down. The trial went on, I know, in the old quarry which stands in for Jerusalem. My pup finds droppings worth nibbling, no doubt a donkey's. I saw the Crucifixion along there one year, and, a few minutes later, the Resurrection nearby next to the old bunya-bunya pine. Good Friday they do it all again. I may go, leaving the dogs at home. Max Richards Doncaster, Victoria Monday 10/Wednesday 12 April 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au