A Showery October Afternoon

It is a showery afternoon water drips from the trees But it's not cold a mild Spring day perhaps twenty degrees In late October in the hills you do get days like these When morning sun give way to showers though cool enough the breeze. The black faced cuckoo shrike is back from places far away A bird you never can mistake in cloak of silver gray And in the wood the high pitched voice of the gray currawong These birds you come to recognize by their distinctive song. On the high gum tree in their nest young magpies chirp and call And October in the Dandenongs the loveliest month of all The high paddocks of Belgrave South are looking lush and green And Mother Nature beautiful as lovely as I've seen. The migratory welcome swallows back in the hills again They fly low o'er the paddocks the flies are low in rain My favourite Season of the year has always been the Spring In storm and rain and sunshine the wild birds chirp and sing This morning pretty butterflies flitted around the flowers But the afternoon turned cloudy and sun gave way to showers In October in the Dandenongs you do get days like these A day of showers and sun shine water dripping off the trees.