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Summer solstice in Perth/ seasonal greetings to all

Published December 23, 2023 by Pelidoug

Summer solstice in Perth/ seasonal greetings to all

 

 

 

In the title-song on her 1974 LP, Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell called Los Angeles city of the fallen angels.

In December 2023  “The Terrace” – the unusually long through street in the non-Scottish Perth’s CBD – has a lot of upstanding angels, along with banners that declare Christmas Lives Here.

Needless to say, their presence will be brief.

And – as you can see in the featured image – they are dwarfed by towers, named after the temporal powers that have prevailed here, year round, since the 1960s.

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“Accidentally Christmassy” (#3 of 3)

Published December 22, 2020 by Pelidoug

“Accidentally Christmassy” (#3 of 3)

 

Conifers – pines, traditionally associated with Christmas – comprise the major part of the Northern Hemisphere’s “tree cover equation”.

The Southern Hemisphere has its own endemic conifers, but south of the equator they are relatively minor players, most especially in Australia.

To Australian eyes, the Northern Hemisphere’s vast pine forests appear relatively drab, sadly lacking in species diversity and colour range.

The contrast is most especially marked in the warmer half of our year, which is the colder half of the Northern year.

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“Accidentally Christmassy” (#2 of 3)

Published December 21, 2020 by Pelidoug

“Accidentally Christmassy” (#2 of 3)

In a “normal” year this 21.12.2020 post would be coming to you from right next door to South Australia’s Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park, where I took the photo on 21 December 2017.

Conifers mostly hail from the other hemisphere, but none of their “Christmassy” cones are lovelier than this Australian species’ “cones”.

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Word power from Helen Garner/ Merry Christmas from Pelican Yoga

Published December 24, 2016 by Pelidoug

Word power from Helen Garner/ Merry Christmas from Pelican Yoga

 

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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