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Anthropomorphic captions almost always lie about the animals they purport to describe!
This juvenile Australian Wood Duck was simply preening, as birds do.
This behaviour has precisely nothing to do with egregious self-regard.
However, the “water as mirror” circumstance does lead me to one of my favourite pianists, delivering a sublime rendition – coughers, notwithstanding – of Claude Debussy’s Reflets dans l’eau.
Comments closedSpring has now arrived, effectively, so Kings Park will become progressively more wonderful over the next several weeks…but winter was also splendid.
The featured image, above, shows Rose mallee leaves, backlit by late afternoon sun on June 19.
Comments closedThis is a sequel to yesterday’s post.
Meanwile, on the other side of the very same tree…and then over the road, into the adjoining park…
Comments closedHere in Perth, Western Australia, it is – notionally – Winter, still.
But, as tomorrow’s sequel to this post will illustrate, Spring was already evident on Friday 21 August, 2020.
Comments closedIf the featured image’s swan had nested at this location a couple of decades earlier, he/she (black swans share nesting/parenting duties) would have almost been “living next door to Alan”.
Alan Bond – criminal/America’s Cup “hero” – is no more, but “his” Victoria Avenue mansion recently sold for multiple millions, and is part of the featured image’s “millionaire’s row”.
This post is best read after first seeing the immediately preceding one.
One CommentPerth is probably the world’s only substantial city where it is possible to walk for more than a kilometre along an unspoiled spit, on which shore birds nest, surrounded by a great expanse of clear, relatively unpolluted water.
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Oblivion is a 1982 composition by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Nuevo tango’s pre-eminent composer and bandoneon virtuoso.
Perhaps his most uncanny piece, it has survived/endured countless covers.
Some of its finest interpreters are not Argentinian, and although one of this post’s two very different versions does feature a “squeezebox”, it is not a bandoneon.
Comments closedHumans may find Lead Belly’s wise advice rather easier to sing than to adopt, but a well-loved local “street cat” exemplifies the notion… most especially when the sun has suitably warmed her favourite footstep.
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Greenhood orchids are currently blooming in Perth’s Kings Park.
Not all of them have green “hoods”!
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The world’s most extensive tropical coastal wilderness is that of the Kimberley, in northern Western Australia.
Its landscapes are epic.
So are the skyscapes; Kimberley thunderheads can dwarf Everest.
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