All photos taken in Perth’s Kings Park on Wednesday September 11, 2019.
The “spiders” are orchids, the “fruits” are inedible, the “spikes” are incredible.
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You can encounter extraordinary flora and fauna without having to leave town!
In my home city even an easy stroll along a cement footpath is highly likely to yield something special.
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Tiny toadstools and strange flora too!
Biodiversity-wise, Western Australia’s Hollywood is enormously wealthier than California’s.
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Because river reds occur in some of the driest and harshest parts of the Australian mainland, you might think they are very efficient users of water. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Every Spring, southwest WA offers “the greatest wildflower show on Earth”.
One choice venue is just a short walk – or a free bus – from Perth’s CBD.
Spring, however, is not the only “good” time; every bushy WA place offers particular, different delights at any time of any year…
One CommentOver the last fifty years I have heard countless versions of Mack the Knife. Undoubtedly, the most acute – and probably the quietest – can be found on One Endless Night, the 2000 album by a master of the “honky tonk” end of country music!
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All photos by Doug Spencer, southwest shore, 13.05.19. Final image unmasks previous post’s fearsome foot.
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Actual? Imaginary? Animatronic? Whose foot is this?
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Indonesian artist Mulyana’s “coral islands” are equal parts celebration and warning.
They are on the walls and floors of The Goods Shed – FORM’s Exhibition Space, adjacent to Claremont Railway Station – until 3 pm on Sunday June 9.
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Our politicians and our mainstream media are equally to blame for Australia’s 2019 Federal Election campaign having become a seemingly-endless avalanche of inanity, predictability, pork-barreling, propaganda, evasion and irrelevance.
However, letter-writer Ian Bevan of Landsdale, WA, has at last voiced the burning question…
(as published in The West Australian on Friday May 3, and quoted in full, below)
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