Looking at the ground right in front of your feet can offer surprising rewards, even when your feet are trudging along urban, paved surfaces.
Especially when a decent amount of rain has recently fallen, such “dead” zones can be surprisingly alive, not endlessly-grey.
Today’s is a Perth example, but the observation holds true in almost any city, at least some of the time.
(photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken on footpath at Subiaco Square, 11. 56 am, 26 June 2022)
The next post in this series will feature a candid image of alfresco dining in the Perth CBD’s main through street.
Meanwhile, this one includes a couple of my favourite winter songs.
Bill Jones (Belinda Jones) is a very distinctive English singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer-arranger – equally effective when singing/playing her own material as when delivering fresh versions of “traditional” songs.
She has several times collaborated with American singer-songwriter/poet/actor/activist Anne Hills; essentially, the recipe has been “Anne’s lyric, as adapted, set to music and sung by Bill”.
Two Year Winter was the titlepiece of Bill Jones’ excellent 2003 album.
On her 2009 album Points of View Anne sang her lyric, set to Bill’s music.
To my ear, one version is a little more uncanny than the other, but both are fine, each is distinctly different, and both benefit from close listening, more than once.
For more of/about Michael Kenna’s superb photography visit his site.
Bill Jones’ recordings are available here.
Click this for Anne Hills’ site.
One of the lovelier winter love songs was written by Gordon Lightfoot; Tony Rice delivered my favourite version on his 1986 album Me & My Guitar:
(Tony Rice – 1951-2020 – was the greatest, most elegant flat-picking acoustic guitarist, ever. He is featured in these other Pelican Yoga posts)