Epigraph: There are times in one's past which remain warm and vivid, and can be taken out and looked at, so to speak, with renewed pleasure. Those 'wildflowering days' at Tamborine Mountain, Caloundra, Noosa, or Lake Cootharaba, when I was able to wander with her, helped train my own eye a little to Kathleen's way of seeing and her devotion to the flowers of the coast, the mountains and the wallum plains and swamps. Judith Wright, Foreword to Kathleen McArthur, Looking at Australian Wildflowers, 1986