Anticipation

Standing in line at the cinema, estimating how many times he'd seen the trailer for this particular movie, he felt a tingle in his toes.

Comfort

She closed her eyes against the harsh light and imagined his hand, familiar in its dry warmth, clasping her own.

Guilty Pleasure

She concentrated on the cool sensation of the creamy chocolate melting in her mouth, and pushed thoughts of calories from her mind.

Curves and Colour

If one word conveys the beauty of a frangipani bloom, it is "blend", as convex becomes concave and yolk becomes white.

Misspoken

She understood, once more, that shoulders can be the most expressive part of the human body, as she watched the door close forlornly behind him.

Chrysalis

The mere knowledge that it was there, lurking under the eaves, pregnant with some insectly menace, was enough to set her teeth on edge.

Tingle

There's nothing like giving your mouth the full works - flossing, scraping, brushing, rinsing - to leave you feeling refreshed and renewed!

Morning Tea

As an apple, it exceeded every cliched expectation, to her great delight.

Compost

Another miracle of nature: that kitchen dregs can be transformed, purely through proximity to garden garbage and a little Blood & Bone, into rich dark soil fit for fertilizing the next batch of ... kitchen dregs!

A Peaceful Nap

Cool linen encased her as, focussing on her breathing, she slipped into unconsciousness.

Mindful Eating

One miracle of physiology is that even plain food, chewed slowly and thoroughly, will become a flavoursome treat.

Workout

The pleasure of muscles working smoothly, heart rate increasing, pores opening and the bare suggestion of an endorphin rush: this is good.

Soliloquy

There are few plants I don't like, but rose bushes are vindictive, spiteful beings which will rip your flesh as soon as look at you, and then sit there, seductively waving their serrated leaves and glorying in their self-appointed queendom of the flowering world; bah - begone!

It's going to be a hot one

Watering in the cool freshness after dawn, tiny desiccated leaf-boats nudged her toes.

Conversation

Lying on the grass, eyes shut, attending to each tree's distinctive whisper in the breeze.

Orchid

Picking up a damp, clean cloth, she gently wiped the dust from each malachite-green leaf.

Marriage

"So I said to him, 'I went to bed angry, I slept angry, and I got up angry. I need your help!' and he said, 'But you managed it so well', and took my hand."

It's OK

Pausing over oatmeal, spoon halfway to her mouth, she realized it was the dust on the windows that allowed her to see the filigreed shadow of leaf-blocked sunshine.

Creative Space

"All right, I'll leave you to it," he said, backing out of the room.

New Year's Day

Each branch, each very twig of the natives over the back fence is tipped with sprigs of new growth, creating a mantle of freshness over last year's leaves.