Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
According to the people who were already here for many thousands of years before “European settlement”, southwest Western Australia has six seasons.
Each is determined by what is actually happening, rather than by a calendar’s fixed dates.
Currently, in and around Perth, it is very evidently Djilba – the first of two “Spring” seasons.
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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.
One CommentThis post includes my favourite cover of a wistful, very famous Johnny Cash song, and a singular version of a less famous, more urgent song, authored by Stuart Adamson.
Both are “live” performances.
Darrell Scott is their American singer-guitarist, Danny Thompson their English double bassist.
And that’s not all…
Comments closedSouthwest Western Australia’s flowering, feathered and furry members of the first two categories need each other, vitally.
Could their survival prospects have anything to do with the third category?
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