Summer in September (A 'Stills' Post).

Another week was spent working in Darwin. This time around, I was more prepared for the humidity and how to grapple with my hair. I even managed two early morning runs, in about 95% humidity (and had to apologise profusely to the elderly couple I shared the hotel lift with afterwards!). Back at home, my weekend was spent lazily swimming, drinking coffee, doing uni work and riding to the shops on my shiny new bike. (More about the bike soon!)

I also came across this video over the weekend. It tells the story of Garrawarra Cemetery, an overgrown bush cemetery in the northern reaches of Wollongong, NSW, where more than 2,000 tuberculosis patients were buried in the first half of the 20th century. One of those buried there is my great-great-grandmother, Florence, whose photograph appears in the film. Watching the film made me remember the stories told to me by my great-grandmother, about her mother becoming ill with 'consumption', having to care for her mum and her siblings until Florence was taken to the Sanitorium and my Gran and her siblings to girls' and boys' homes and then foster families. Florence was only 36 when she died. Florence was a singer in the Tivoli circuit, and Gran remembered her as having the 'voice of an angel'. I can't imagine what it must have been like. Nowadays, the cemetery is overgrown and closed to the public.

1. Those chickens just keep on growing.
2. It's shiny, it's red and it has a basket. Perfect for Alice Springs, perfect for summer.
3. The scruffy author.
4. Bright colours from the loungeroom floor, newspaper-reading.
5. Some of the many tomatoes budding on our plants.
6. Kale growing quickly.
7. Deliciously hued bedspread I picked up from Darwin's Mindil Beach Market.

And a link to lovely Em at the Beetle Shack for the Stills linky!