Grose Vale Twilight

The sun had only moments before set behind the Blue Mountains, but the countryside around my house was bathed in golden afterglow, and the grass (which only a week before had been crunchy brown stalks) was now almost luminous green.

In the distance, behind the windmill and trees, are 4 and a half million people spread out in the Greater Sydney Basin. Sydney is so spread-out, and the suburbs so treed that it's easy to forget that I live on the edge of a world city. That I could drop every kiwi into the basin and there would still be 200,000 left over in change.