by Paula Peeters | Aug 21, 2026 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Nature journaling, Writing
Do you want to try nature journaling but don’t know where to start? Not many spare moments in your day? Here’s a simple, brief, but beautiful way to respond to nature: a Haiku. A haiku is a type of Japanese poetry. There are many different forms of haiku,...
by Paula Peeters | Aug 20, 2024 | Writing
Last Sunday morning, I was minding my stall at the Beechmont Market. The day was bright, sunny, with a chilly westerly wind. A woman picked up a copy of my book Stories from the Wildworld. She looked at me and said “This is my favourite book. I try to give away lots...
by Paula Peeters | Nov 2, 2021 | Writing
Binna Burra, September 2021 The forest always gives so much. But I need to slow down, to observe, to open myself to its abundance, for this to happen. As I walk into the forest I see the different layers, shapes, colours of green that are the leaves, foliage,...
by Paula Peeters | Mar 7, 2021 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Nature journaling, Writing
He waits on the bright green grass, alone. As I approach, he walks quickly away (wood ducks don’t waddle). Dark head held high, a cautious eye looking back, watching my every step. I walk by, and he settles back down on the grass, waiting. Wood ducks are grass-eaters,...
by Paula Peeters | Nov 17, 2019 | Letter from Beechmont, Writing
Flame trees, jacarandas and silky oaks, are flowering wildly, against the smoke. Two months since we nearly lost our house in the Binna Burra bushfire, and fires continue to burn all around us. Our lives are saturated with smoke. What has been incinerated to end up in...
by Paula Peeters | Sep 13, 2019 | Writing
I found this charred piece of someone’s book on the edge of Timbarra Drive, Beechmont, where 10 houses were destroyed by fire last weekend. I talked to some firefighters who were patrolling the area in a truck, and thanked them for the amazing work they had done to...
