All photos taken in recent days, from local footpaths, less than 10 minutes – by car, bus, or train – from Perth’s CBD.
It is often pleasingly difficult to believe that our metropolis is home to more than two million humans.
At least some things are flowering, at any time of year; the featured image’s eucalyptus was photographed just before sunset on 8 April.
Along Cambridge Street many of the street trees are melaleucas, with papery bark and toothbrushy, creamy blossoms.
Late in the day, even their dying leaves are lovely.
This month, literally every time we have walked out the front door – whether for the simple pleasure of doing so, or to collect post, buy food or liquor, or to catch a train or bus – we have seen galahs and Forest red tailed cockatoos (respectively, pictured below), along with the locally-inevitable magpies, ravens, wagtails, honeyeaters and lorikeets.
Pelican Yoga‘s next trilogy of posts will take you overseas, to a very special place…there, you will find a little lake on a moderate-sized island which sits in a large lake on a very much larger island. Its inhabitants include a very rare bird and one of the world’s most amazing insects.