Strange fruit

Its unusually quiet and still this morning. the freeway traffic sounds pretty heavy, but apart from that everything is very quiet. Its warm, but theres a gentle rain falling - that lovely humid smell.

The leaves of Eucalypts out the window are hanging down in lifeless silhouettes, like strange fruit in the trees. Nothing stirs in nature, not a twig, not a leaf.... And all the while thousands upon thousands of cars roar up and down the free way. Going where I dont know...