The image shows the sky above Australia’s Perth on 13 April 2020, at 5.31 pm – 27 minutes before sunset.
You almost certainly already know one of this post’s three sky songs, but almost certainly not its particular version.
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A Flower is a Lovesome Thing (occasionally, wrongly, it appears online as …a Lonesome…) is one of many exquisite compositions which Billy Strayhorn composed for Duke Ellington.
This post’s flower is one of many orchids that exist only in certain locations in southwestern Western Australia.
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If the tree in question were a deciduous, Northern Hemisphere species, its autumn leaves would be the “right” colour, but otherwise all “wrong”.
These autumn leaves are young and growing, not old and preparing to fall.
They will soon change colour – from red to green, not vice versa.
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…as artfully repurposed by my beloved.
Not all of these found/locally-scrounged objects are easy to identify!
This post also salutes the first rock musicians.
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As a result of today’s Easter Sunday walk, this post breaks the “one image, only” rule that otherwise applies to the “a shining moment” series.
Not all aspects of the current crisis are bad…
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Many of us do not Believe.
A non-Believer, however, can still believe in the power of particular places here on terra firma – earthly “paradises” which inspire us, delight us, even heal us.
One uncanny song is named for a place that really did have the same name as the song which so vividly evoked it, and mourned its destruction: Paradise.
We have just lost its author.
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One day, when the global pandemic is over, I’ll post a sequence of photos that show how this brief but intense example of “pelican yoga” unfolded.
It occurred during the last half hour of sunlight, yesterday, 03 April, at Lake Monger, just minutes away from Perth’s very centre, which is an almost-dead centre, now.
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The photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken, in a state of astonishment, this week, near Subiaco Railway Station, Western Australia.
A suitable caption: Do Not Believe Your Eyes!
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The pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee,
Nor lineage of Ecstasy
Delay the Butterfly.
…as currently done, locally, by Great Crested Grebes and “snake-birds”.
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