Water crisis

It's easy to become weary of thinking about the water crisis here in Melbourne, but you can't really avoid it.....

Everywhere plants are turning crispy and dying, and our local parks are a depressing sight. Gus' favourite big duckpond has dried up completely, and what was once green parkland is now cracked dry earth. This is where Gus used to romp in the grass:




This is what it looked like once:






Hooray for tanks and water recycling though .... our little garden is still quite green, bedded down with mulch and growing well!