"Some people, some nations, are permanently in shade. Some people cast a shadow. Lengths of elongated darkness precede them, even in church when the sun is in, as they say, mopped up by the dirty cloth of the clouds. A puddle of dark forms around their feet. It's very pinelike. The pine and darkness are one. Eucalyptus are unusual in this respect: set pendulously their lives allow see-through foliage which in turn produces a frail patterned sort of shade, if at all. Clarity, lack of darkness - these might be called 'eucalyptus qualities'."
Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
Today, in this still, unyielding heat, I am sitting in my garden in the shade of a eucalyptus tree, or rather, the mottled shade of the eucalyptus tree, and watching the light dance across my computer screen. I could try and think of better ways to waste away such a hot day but, then, it's just too hot for that.
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