My Country

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
by Dorothea Mackellar
(1885 - 1968)
Since I got home to my drought stricken country it has not stopped raining!
The newspaper headlines have read "Prayer for Rain Answered with a Vengeance"
Flooding has impacted on both New South Wales and Victorian Towns with flood warnings being broadcast all day today for rivers in Gippsland. Fortunately Ballarat has just been soaking up the rain.