moonvoice (ravenari)

A few days here.
I have somehow stuffed my right shoulder
(I say 'somehow' but I actually did it frolicking in the garden last night
at around midnight.
Yes, I said frolicking).
Like a newborn lamb.





( Smoke close-ups, a couple of donuts, and an insipid cross-stitch under the cut... )

We have been downgraded to a watch/act warning.
Hope no homes are lost,
but it's not likely.
We are prepared to evacuate if necessary.
But hopefully North Ellenbrook will now be okay.
I didn't actually catch the smoke at its most sinister, mostly to be away from the heat.





( Four more under the cut. )

Gotta be honest, this is more of a 'quick I need somewhere to put stuff, so I'll shove it here,' corner.
So there's art supplies for the future that haven't been packed up yet,
there's cuts of illustration board that haven't been drawn on yet.
There's a lot of books that I've read,
and a couple I haven't (really looking forward to Television Dramatic Dialogue, which also looks critically at how the television drama genre has actually shaped the way we speak to each other and expect interpersonal dialogue to happen in *real life* as well.)
There's a beanie baby from like...12 years ago.
Spare bubblewrap for packaging large images, a CD storage thingie,
two paperblanks journals (one for information on animal guides,
and another for... *checks* oh, it's a journal.)

Pia: 'Crap, I haven't done my photo of the day yet!'
Glen: 'We have to leave!'
Pia: 'Quick, Putu, what can I do for my photo of the day!'
Putu: [picks up lemon] 'What about this?'
Pia: 'Fuck it, that'll do, the lighting is terrible, whatever, okay, done! Let's go!'

No Christmas tree this year
(no room),
so Christmas bookshelves instead!
I like it a lot that I'm going to do it next year too.
Bookshelves should always be festive.

I like clouds, very much.
Thankfully, here in Perth,
we often get some wonderful examples,
with our huge skies,
and lack of pollution.





( Two more. )

It took me long enough to get off my ass and take the photos.
And then it took a surprising amount of time to find one of the pre-existing paving.
So you know.
But here you go,
it's finally all sorted.
Now we just have to work on the rest of the garden.

From this (barring the mess):





To this:





( liquid limestone - cool enough to walk on in bare feet, even on 40C days under direct sunlight. )

This has been rolling across Perth,
assiduously avoiding Ellenbrook (*shakes fist*),
but here's the edge of it,
looks impressive, no?
The lightning was pretty spectacular.
Maybe it will resolve into something later.





( It's probably pretty obvious how much I like taking photos of clouds. )

So Glen, Putu and I hung out yesterday afternoon,
and decided to find a park where we could go for a walk.
Because it's lovely, balmy Spring weather right now,
and great for mostly being ratbags
and scaring the locals.





( I guess it started to make sense, we were just sitting on the fence, there wasn't writing on the wall; there wasn't anything at all. But if your love returns to me, if what's not turns out to be 'oh you don't know.' )

They've started knocking down the bushland behind our house;
in preparation for building on it.
Over the past three years I've been documenting the beautiful fauna and flora that live there,
both in illustration, and in photography.
This morning I went out again.
One day, this will all be gone. One day very, very soon.


Acacia - Unidentified, because there are so many species of acacia and even my books because I have like 10 books on SW WA flower identification of 400 plants of the South-West of Australia doesn't have it. Can't be assed trawling through Florabase today. Flower buds and a blossom.




( morning smiles, like the face of a newborn child. )