The rains have come but let's hope they don't wash away the memories of this terrible summer. They haven't for the animals – not yet. Up at our bush block, the kangaroos crowd around the few remaining structures. They are thin and bedraggled by rain.The little ones, in particular, don't run away. There's nowhere else to go, just an endless carpet of black ash, stretching for many kilometres in all directions.
Now, five weeks since the fire raged through, the leaves have turned russet. A puff of wind sends them falling to the ground. Australia's trees are not deciduous, right? They are now. It feels like mid-fall in North America. The trunks ooze a white foam which, in the heavy rain, is driven into the streams that run hard along the dirt track outside our place. It looks like someone has spilt a bottle of detergent, but the white foam, I'm later told, is a chemical compound, rich in saponins.When rain comes after drought, the eucalypts shed the chemical to help the rain penetrate the dry soil around their base.Yes, but here lies our peril.
The fires, nearly all of them, are now out. The rains have come, although not everywhere. Communities are tighter, more united, bound by a million moments of bravery and kindness. Everywhere, there is bottomless gratitude for the firefighters.
Forever known as the morrisonfires
Lest we forget
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