Usually you will find when sitting in front of your computer at work and not engrossed with the task at hand your eyes usually rest upon the familiar surrounds of your desk. Perhaps some sticky notes with obscure messages stuck to the wall, the usual menagerie of pens, paper clips etc, maybe even a two day old coffee cup stain on the rather cluttered Formica desk top. Then of course there is the obligatory wall calendar which makes you even more morose with yesterday’s date slipping into your memory while tomorrow and thereafter holds little hope of escape. Added of course to the ‘no hope’ scenario is the usual calendar scene of some tropical paradise or perhaps some unbelievably coloured Greek island scene that you have always wanted to experience but know the chains of the desk are ever binding.
There are a few of us who experience a different view from our desk. I am one of the lucky ones as I can look up from the task at hand and see a beautiful world of trees, flowers and birds in the background behind my computer screen. Let me show you what I am seeing this morning.
Amongst the strikingly brilliant yellow grevillea in front of me, rainbow lorikeets, blue-faced honeyeaters and noisy friars are jostling for the biggest flowers to extract their early morning sweet treat.
As I am sitting 6m above the surrounding garden my tree canopy view is extra special – seeing firsthand the antics of two crested hawks ‘casing’ our selection of trees. These amazing yellow eyed birds of prey with their proud crest and distinctively striped chest fly from tree to tree, one following the other seemingly to inspect each branch in turn seeing if it is suitable for their spring nesting.
In the periphery of my field of view, a nervous female swamp wallaby is silently nibbling the native grasses towards the edge of our property stopping to look around at every noise. Two masked lapwings are probing the lawn in front of the house, just beautiful the way they stealthily move eating some unseen morsel from the lawn then fly away noisily when the wallaby comes too close.
A kookaburra is sunning itself in the bloodwood tree directly in front of me, it puffs out its feathers to get maximum warmth from the early morning sun.
Yes the view from my desk is an ever changing event. There is no calendar calling me to some exotic location however, with the coconut palms to the left of my computer screen gently swaying in the breeze, who needs more from this otherwise ordinary work day at my Desk.
Jen
