Dusk delight from the chill spot Beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder, but only if the beholder is taking notice and observing the detail of what they cast their eyes across. We can spend much of our time using the device that this is written on scrolling down or finger sliding across, … Continue reading Just Look
Preamble This is a garden of serious heart driven plant love. A naked back yard of lawn monoculture and a front yard with a couple of historic trees and not much else greeted my sister Michele when buying this property close to the heart of Launceston in 2014. For this long term serious gardener with … Continue reading Spring has sprung in Michele’s garden of Perennial Delights
Rhododendron Christmas Cheer in full bloom August in Tasmania. So named as it flowers during northern hemisphere winter months! Three weeks ago - in Kuala Lumpur with 34 degrees C and 80% humidity. Blink twice and the garden plants have doubled in size. A slight exaggeration but not much when discussing plants growing in a … Continue reading Reawakening of the Gardener for all Seasons
Knotted stems embrace about the size of the palm of the hand. Four years into drought at Kalbarri National Park, W Aus circa 2007. Pic: Chris Round Impossibility exists within this compressed, twisted and tortured desire to be. Relentlessly harassed and pressured into submission, to find a way, to set new direction away from this … Continue reading The Knot
Drinking in this landscape of salt laden harshness at the edge of the World. Sun a harsh reflector off the hardened ground with red leaved trees and shrubs casting unreasonable shade. Leafy green? Not one. At least the sky is reassuringly blue. Impossible to believe I am finally here after 26 years of visualising it. … Continue reading Unreasonable
Early Morning East Coast Peninsular Malaysia late October 2021 (Pic: C. Round) Tail end of the first week in March 2022, and coming home from two days of surfing . Reflect on what was Forecast and quality of Surf available. A measure of disappointment dominated this reflection. There had been consistent forecast of waves being … Continue reading Surf’s uP!
Seven years years, 3 months and 6 days on from the Great Crash, the Great Plague soon after and now the Great storms of Climate Madness. Have no idea why I still mark off the calendar. Friends gone, where? Who knows. Chaos does that. Family? A bit like so called friends, who knows? Up until … Continue reading BEYOND
Delonix regia in full glorious sweeping flower among the hills of Bali.(Flame tree or in Bali is Padangbai). Its origins are on the remote South West Indian Ocean Island Madagascar. It now claims many long term homes around the World. "Pokok" - Malaysian word for tree and basically anything else that grows. I love, admire … Continue reading POKOK
The stunning Bat Lily (Tacca macrantha) only to be found in Forest understory and only along the path less traveled. 1. Limbo Land Limbo land, life still is. Over two years has been spent on the path towards gaining a Spousal Visa to enable me to be legally in Malaysia. Massive amount of forms, proof … Continue reading PANACEA
LIGHT Dark of Night becomes blind as light of the Sun pokes over the horizon at Dawn. High Summer over a blanched desert landscape, light is not welcome, its intensity heralding another day of unremitting baking. The traveler's eyes and soul wince as one to this glare of pure white backed by the stark blue … Continue reading LIGHT and DARK
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