Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
This post highlights three interesting essays on the above.
Only one author is primarily a journalist; the other two are, respectively, an English physicist/cosmologist and an Australian (of Greek ancestry) who is best known for his provocative literary fictions.
2 CommentsAll photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken in or near Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska, May/June 2015 – the first one from “our” sea kayak.
2 CommentsHappy New Year from Pelican Yoga. Read on and you’ll reap a Fiddlehead Fern musical reward…
One CommentIt is now drinking beautifully. Good news: ’09 vintage is the current release, available from the winery at a very fair price for a carefully cellared, truly premium Margaret River red.
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A Qualup Bell – simply being itself – is lovelier than any jingle bells, jiving. Religious leaders’ “seasonally appropriate” platitudes ring as hollow as electioneering politicians’ “motherhood statements”. But you are one click away from a beautifully poignant, perceptive perspective on motherhood…
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An obsession with celebrity does not lie quietly beside the other things we value; it takes their place.
One CommentThis post’s photos were all taken in November 2016, after “Australia Felix” had enjoyed its best winter rains in many years.
One CommentWhat elephants may be lacking most of all is not language but the Rosetta Stone to prove they have it and clue us in to what on God’s green earth they’re talking about all the time…. They have a vocal range of ten octaves (a piano has seven), and up to three-quarters of the sounds they produce are inaudible to human ears.
2 CommentsIn Australia wonderful wildlife experiences can be had, even before you walk off your doorstep, deck or verandah.
All photos in this post were taken from or on the deck of a very nice holiday house in Nelson, southwesternmost Victoria.
One CommentAll pictures taken on a very short walk from Wrenwood Chalets, a few minutes drive from Augusta, and half an hour’s drive from Margaret River.
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