Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
I took the photo on a glorious autumn morning almost exactly one year ago – 10.26 am, 29 October 2019, Labahe, Sichuan, China.
In Scotland, more than half a century earlier, Robin Williamson wrote my favourite autumn song.
Allegedly, October Song was the first song he ever wrote, as a teenager.
One CommentInarguably, much of it is perplexing.
Arguably, however, it often reveals the actual nature of what is now routinely described – by those not under its yoke – as an “authoritarian” regime.
”Totalitarian” is, I think, a more accurate descriptor.
Comments closedRed Pandas are their genus’s only (two) species; further, they are the only living members of their family, Ailuridae.
They are only very distantly related to Giant Pandas.
Giant Pandas are bears, members of the Ursidae family.
Red Pandas are more closely related to weasels, skunks and raccoons, as fellow members of the superfamily, Musteloidea.
Comments closedThe featured image depicts maternal tenderness, but Macaca thibetana is also a strikingly aggressive, opportunistic species.
Unsurprisingly, this species’ “near threatened” status is the result of pressure/competition from our own aggressive, opportunistic species!
Tibetan Macaques live in cool subtropical Asian forests at elevations between 800 and 2500 metres above sea level.
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Could Sir Mick and his fellow Rolling Stones really be so dangerous, still?
…and who knew that they lurked within a nature Reserve in China?
Lock up your pandas!
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Ugly Beauty is a composition by Thelonious Monk.
Received notions, prejudices and phobias can prevent people from seeing or hearing clearly.
Less so posthumously, but very much so during his lifetime, many just did not “get” Monk’s music – for reasons not hugely dissimilar to those which can blind people to an arachnid’s or a reptile’s beauty.
One CommentLabahe Nature Reserve is most celebrated as a place where it is (relatively) easy for humans to see red pandas.
Too many of its visiting humans have eyes for nothing else!
2 CommentsOur China “expedition” had two other key destinations: nature reserves in environments much wetter, warmer – and lower – than the Tibetan Plateau.
Various aspects of Tangjiahe and Labahe will eventually be explored in individual posts on Pelican Yoga.
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