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Anomalies Apple blossom in autumn?! – so much is out of kilter – we were anticipating bare-limbed winter. February’s scorchers must have so disconcerted the long-suffering lingerers in this former orchard the showers of April in the south have pierced them to the root. Blooming – now! – climate change? something deeply disordered. This long frond I’ve brought home sports a dozen fresh flowers – and two scorched-dead leaves from those dire weeks before the showers, when the winds from inland turned sparks to horizon-wide fire-fronts leaving as ash human remains and animals, townships, farms, vineyards, wilderness parks – now, with rain, sprouting shoots from black trunks. Max Richards Doncaster Vic Wednesday 15 April 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au