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Life Goes On/ Happy 85th birthday, Carla Bley

Published May 12, 2021 by Pelidoug

Life Goes On/ Happy 85th birthday, Carla Bley

 

In the USA, it is currently “yesterday”,  Tuesday, 11 May, 2021.

I hope that Carla Bley is enjoying a very happy birthday with her beloved, Steve Swallow.

For rather more than my entire adult life, Carla Bley has composed, arranged and played singular music, variously – sometimes, simultaneously – provocative, surprising, very amusing, satirical, sublimely lyrical, complex, seemingly-simple…

Her three most recent releases – all, new trio recordings of new music, made between 2013 and 2019 – are some of her finest, ever.

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Anvil Beach, again (postscript to #6 in “Deep South WA meets Southern Ocean” series)

Published April 27, 2021 by Pelidoug

Anvil Beach, again (postscript to #6 in “Deep South WA meets Southern Ocean” series)

If you are “new” to Anvil Beach, it would be a good idea – before you proceed further – to see/read its earlier post

This one is the fruit of a visit/swim (my beloved did all of the swimming) at the end of an unusually hot day.

The featured image, taken at 6.03 pm on 18 March 2021, shows Anvil Beach’s “anvil”.

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Stirling Range, after fire

Published April 11, 2021 by Pelidoug

Stirling Range, after fire

 

 

At 1,159 square kilometres Stirling Range National Park is “large”, or “small”, depending on one’s perspective.

Four hours drive northwest, Perth – Western Australia’s sprawling metropolis  – occupies more than five times as much ground.

The Stirlings’ “footprint” is less than one 209th of the United Kingdom’s 242, 495 square kilometres.

Botanically, however, the Stirling Range is much the “bigger”/“hotter” place!

It has more flowering plant species than does the entire UK; many of them grow only in or near the Stirling Range.

Two recent “catastrophic” fires seemingly “destroyed” much more than half of what had been growing there…

 

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Ugly beauty: “Forest Motors” (# 89 in “a shining moment” series)

Published March 31, 2021 by Pelidoug

Ugly beauty: “Forest Motors” (# 89 in “a shining moment” series)

A big, rusting surprise was just one minute’s walk away from the house in which we recently spent sixteen nights – on a forested hill near Youngs Siding, in Western Australia’s Deep South.

This post’s musical complement: a singular treatment of an apropos Thelonious  Monk number, plus the most tender song ever written about a car salesman….

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“Millennial” lizard, relishing avocado

Published March 20, 2021 by Pelidoug

“Millennial” lizard, relishing avocado

As Australia’s Right-“thinking” “pundits”/commentators/zealots “know”, if this “scaly, self-indulgent millennial” continues to bolt down avocados, it will never achieve home ownership!

They may, however, be pleased to know that no member of this species has ever sipped a latte…although some “pundits” surely will be disappointed to learn that its name does not salute a monarch/y.

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