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Month: January 2021

Yeniuguo/ Wild Yak Valley (#5 in “Tibetan Plateau” series)

This sequel to the immediately-preceding post shows the magnificent landscape which surrounds and towers above the valley’s floor.

From Budongquan (see #4 in Tibetan Plateau series) we set off in darkness.

We breakfasted two hours later, overlooking a brushy, sandy section of the valley floor…through which we then walked.

The featured image (all photos copyright Doug Spencer) was taken at 8.11 am, during breakfast.

 

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Living on a high, dry “floor” (#4 in “Tibetan Plateau” series)

The featured bird is very tiny, very hardy.

“His” valley’s sparsely vegetated floor – the “low ground”, locally – all sits within 200 metres either side of 4000 metres above sea level.

If transplanted to the Tibetan Plateau, New Zealand’s highest peak would fail to reach this valley’s lowest point.

 

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Lights Beach to Waterfall Beach (#5 in “Deep South WA meets Southern Ocean” series)

 

Lights Beach is a deal less than half an hour’s easy drive west, from Denmark.

Lights Beach car park sits just outside the eastern boundary of William Bay National Park.

The featured image and the one below were both taken from just below the car park’s edge; the wider-angle view looks south, whilst the one above looks west, along the National Park’s shoreline.

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Vale Frank Kimbrough (1956-2020)

 

Many self-declared “jazz lovers” would not recognise his name, nor have ever heard him…wittingly, at least.

That said, I am far from alone – and am in some very good company – in having long regarded Frank Kimbrough as one of the select few improvising pianists who ought be described/remembered as “one of the greats”.

if I were only ever allowed another listen to just ten “piano trio tracks”, his sublimely beautiful Waiting in Santander would be one of them:

 

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