Russet trees & scarlet tails

Is that fall colour I see on the hillside as the mist parts over Calabash Bay?  Nope, wrong season, wrong continent.  It’s the golden-brown tips of the casuarina trees, the males that is, laden with pollen and catching the morning light. For all their evocative latin label – named after their cassowary-like foliage – the … Continue reading Russet trees & scarlet tails