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Many of us do not Believe.
A non-Believer, however, can still believe in the power of particular places here on terra firma – earthly “paradises” which inspire us, delight us, even heal us.
One uncanny song is named for a place that really did have the same name as the song which so vividly evoked it, and mourned its destruction: Paradise.
We have just lost its author.
Comments closedOne day, when the global pandemic is over, I’ll post a sequence of photos that show how this brief but intense example of “pelican yoga” unfolded.
It occurred during the last half hour of sunlight, yesterday, 03 April, at Lake Monger, just minutes away from Perth’s very centre, which is an almost-dead centre, now.
Comments closedThe photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken, in a state of astonishment, this week, near Subiaco Railway Station, Western Australia.
A suitable caption: Do Not Believe Your Eyes!
Comments closedThe pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee,
Nor lineage of Ecstasy
Delay the Butterfly.
…as currently done, locally, by Great Crested Grebes and “snake-birds”.
Comments closedNow happening in southern Australia…and some us do not have to leave town in order to enjoy surprisingly close views.
On at least one inner-metropolitan lake, Podiceps cristatus has recently become surprisingly much less wary of Homo sapiens.
One CommentAs we had done many hundreds of times over the last three decades, my beloved and I walked to Lake Monger shortly before sunset on the second day of 2020.
This time, we witnessed something utterly unexpected.
6 CommentsThe first two happenings were entirely natural.
The gleaming involved a little unwitting assistance from skyscrapers.
All occurred as daylight ebbed at Perth’s Lake Monger, on September 30, 2019. (photos copyright Doug Spencer)
One CommentThe late September holiday weekend usually coincides with the peak of Perth’s annual springtime wildflower “explosion”.
Not in 2019: very low rainfall in August and September prompted many plants to flower early…or not at all.
At any time of year some things are in flower, but if you wish to experience Perth’s 2019 Spring wildflowers, head to places like this post’s destination very soon!
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