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Barking mad: what tree’s skin is this?

As regular readers/viewers know, Pelican Yoga is partial to eucalypts’ bark, most especially when those trees shed and renew their skin.

I am no expert on particular species, but I can positively identify this one.

The relevant sign (next image) will let you know if your guess is correct; chances are excellent that you will “bark up” the wrong tree!

 

Still unsold, after all these years, Cambridge St, West Leederville. Copyright Doug Spencer.

 

The “creative” dreams have yet to be realised.

Its realtors have long since ceased to offer any particular, “creative” suggestion as to just what would be a suitable use for this modest-sized, probably-contaminated site. (in the 20th century it was a petrol station and mechanic’s premises)

Quite a few years into its languishment, this sad little site – unloved by buyers, but popular among freeloading car-parkers – had paint slapped on its building, in a vain attempt to entice buyers.

As that “skin” begins to peel off the structure’s curved part, the building is gaining a greater resemblance to “life” than it has hitherto enjoyed, at least in this millennium!

Coming up next on Pelican Yoga: some spectacular, really-alive, inner urban life.

Published in nature and travel photographs Western Australia