Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
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!
Comments closedAll photos by Doug Spencer, southwest shore, 13.05.19. Final image unmasks previous post’s fearsome foot.
3 CommentsActual? Imaginary? Animatronic? Whose foot is this?
Comments closedIndonesian 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.
Comments closedOur 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)
Comments closedOur hero/heroine was not delighted by his/her (temporary, brief) removal from the “motel” which s/he shares with an even more astonishing animal.
Respectively, reptile and insect, the Southern Alps gecko and the Mountain stone weta are two of many reasons that visitors to Wanaka ought ensure they visit Mou Waho; as well as scenic splendour, the island offers crucial sanctuary to vulnerable species.
Comments closedThe featured image shows a New Zealand bellbird, Anthornis melanura.
(photos copyright Doug Spencer, all taken on Mou Waho, 21 March 2019)
However, this post’s star is a less “glamorous” but altogether more curious bird – in both senses of “curious”.
Comments closedNew Zealand’s South Island has a number of large, deep, glacier-carved lakes.
Each is jaw-droppingly beautiful…but all are far from pristine.
Only long after ancient Rome’s “fall” did Aotearoa/New Zealand first “enjoy” human presence; available evidence suggests that Maori settlement began a little less than 750 years ago.
Comments closedAll 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.
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