Photographically speaking, Pelican Yoga – whether at home or interstate/abroad – generally inclines to wild places and/or to plants and animals that naturally occur in the relevant locations.
This post is an exception.
Its photos were taken over the last several years in assorted, “not especially remarkable” locations within the Perth metropolitan area.
In every case, I was standing on a paved or “sealed” surface.
All key species pictured are “strangers”, present only via humans having introduced them to southwest Western Australia, post-1829.
Bougainvillea come from South America.
The featured image and the photo below were taken on the same day, in the same lane.
As their name would suggest, Norfolk Pines originally grew only on Norfolk Island.
They have become Cottesloe’s “signature” trees.
Australia has many native bee species. To my knowledge, none of them make hives anything like those pictured. Certainly, willows did not grow in WA before 1829.
(if you look up, and listen, you will be among the very small portion of Perth’s resident humans who notice that more than a few of Perth’s trees have hives on or in them)
Ficus (fig) trees thrive in Perth, but like wheat, Norfolk Pines (and Rainbow Lorikeets and Kookaburras) they are only here via human intervention, post-1829.
Happily, one conspicuous, dangerous, ugly and inefficient form of human intervention is gradually “on the way out” in Perth…thanks to human intervention.
The final two photos were taken on the day that our local overhead lines were cut, then their “power poles” pulled out and taken away.
With “the electricity” now underground, street trees are gradually resuming their proper shapes, no longer subjected to their formerly- frequent, dreadful “haircuts”.
Nice retrospective!