Chapter Two is international, and includes a musical bonus – audio of two of my favourite rain songs. (one of them is an “unissued” version)
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I live in a sundrenched metropolis. Today has been gloriously wild, intermittently very wet, ever-changing, mostly cool.
Many fellow residents of Perth regard such days as “miserable” or “horrible”, to be endured, not enjoyed…and not at all photogenic.
They are wrong/blind; dry, warm sunny days are not the only “good” kind!
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Three recent essays (one, delivered as a speech to The National Press Club) – each, very different – are provocative, but nuanced.
Richard Flanagan’s, Stan Grant’s and Don Watson’s words are worth reading, in full.
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This sequel to preceding post was made possible by yesterday’s long-awaited arrival of the lens that I ordered in January.
(Q: do mega corporate entities still treat Australia as a “distant colony, there to be exploited, rather than served or serviced promptly?” A: Yes, alas)
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Sometimes, for a vulnerable Australian species, an introduced species can prove an unexpected gift rather than yet another threat.
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Remote, yet easily reached – when weather and other drivers have been gentle to its access roads.
Severely degraded – via agricultural activity/malpractice, upstream.
But still beautiful, apparently “wild” – this fragile/resilient place includes Crocodile Rock.
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A readily accessible natural wonder … which few human eyes have seen.
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16.12.2017 was a pleasant South Australian summer day.
At dusk, the sky over Aldinga Bay foreshadowed today’s unpleasantly hot weather.
When I downloaded this image, the cybergods surprised me, twice.
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…with emblematic assistance/assistants from Bremer Bay, in the Deep South…of Western Australia.
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Bark – trees’ skin – resembles humans’ skin, in having a vibrantly alive innermost layer, and a dead outermost one.
However, some healthy trees’ skin-shedding is a much more spectacular (and beautiful) process than is any healthy human’s.
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