Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
This post’s actual footprints come from bears in Alaska, birds on the Indian subcontinent and continental Australia, a Tasmanian wombat, and humans in an African desert and Australian suburbia.
The musical bonus is courtesy of one of the greatest jazz musicians – equally so as composer, virtuoso instrumentalist and inspired improviser.
There’s also a metaphorical footnote which involves New Zealand’s largest farm…
Comments closedChapter Two is international, and includes a musical bonus – audio of two of my favourite rain songs. (one of them is an “unissued” version)
Comments closedBest viewed after chapter one.
This post’s “stars” are named after terrestrial flowering plants, but sea anemones are carnivorous animals.
One CommentThis chapter looks at temporarily dry land. Chapter two – coming up in November – looks at softer things that cannot survive quite as far away from the low tide line.
One CommentAll photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken in or near Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska, May/June 2015 – the first one from “our” sea kayak.
2 CommentsHappy New Year from Pelican Yoga. Read on and you’ll reap a Fiddlehead Fern musical reward…
One CommentAll photos in this post were taken late May/early June 2015 in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.
These Arctic Terns were perched on little bergs calved off the Margerie Glacier
Contrary to what your eyes suggest, the prevailing climate at this particular southeast Alaskan location is “cool wet, coastal temperate rainforest.”
One CommentMany years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
One CommentAlso graceless, this attempt to get airborne was a success. With luck, the lookalike will prove less successful!
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