Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
Around half of the 200+ known chameleon species live only in one country.
Madagascar is home to both the biggest and smallest chameleons.
Much of what most people believe about chameleons is pure fiction…or rather less than half-truth.
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The English word and the Arabic word can be translated, directly, as each other.
In either language, however, this “simple” word has an enormous number of different meanings, nuances, layers…
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Where booted footsteps, bird tracks and “thonglines” meet…
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Long, prominent tail feathers are a key feature of Anas acuta, the northern pintail.
This handsome, migratory, large dabbling duck really gets around.
The pictured individuals were wintering in Rajasthan, before heading north to their breeding grounds in central or northern Asia, or Europe.
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Alta Paz literally translates into English as “high peace”.
It is the name of a particularly beautiful piece by Argentinian guitarist Quique Sinesi.
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Yes, the peregrine really is the fastest animal on earth!
This post’s peregrine falcon is an immature individual.
That description is not a character judgement; the colour of its plumage makes clear that it is a young bird.
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It was – in the exact words uttered earlier tonight on Australian television – “an analog, off-line experience”.
On the morning of 19 October 2019, the valley floor on which we stood was almost twice as high as Australia-proper’s highest peak.
The peaks above us were a deal higher, again.
…and yes – rather more than a thousand, mostly-vertical metres away from us – wild yaks were making their way across a snow-blanketed alpine meadow.
Comments closedThis one is probably the most popular African flower among Australia’s gardeners.
This post’s example was photographed on Anzac Day afternoon, in a petite, surprisingly lush parkland, on the “doorstep” of Perth’s CBD.
Today’s musical selection was inspired by an African flower…or, perhaps, by an imaginary one, blooming in a jungle, somewhere…
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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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