moonvoice (ravenari)

These are also from like 5 years ago.
Basically there came a time when the labour of processing and sharing photos was just too hard with the Fibromyalgia. But I also really miss sharing photos?
And I really like having them here to go back through sometimes.
It's very selfish to post them like this.
But I hope you get something out of them.




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Actually I should have posted the drive down to Margaret River first.

These are from last year.
This year we'll be going to Dunsborough, if all works out,
breaking a ten year loyalty to a particular place,
that is no longer as good.

We are so lucky to be able to travel freely. I have been craving sitting on white beach sands and staring out at the horizon and feeling endless.

But here are karri forests in Djeran (autumn), that make me feel endless in an entirely different way.




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We call it Autumn,
not Fall.
Because the leaves don't fall from almost any of our native trees.
Only the exotics.

But still I craved Autumn colours, and so we drove,
to Stirk Park and beyond,
into The Valley.
Where a mixture of landscapes can be found.


Sometimes you can see why it was named after Scotland.




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The place where you don't stand still too long in certain sections of the path, because bull ants have one of the highest death counts in Australia.

The place where you will always hear at least one species of parrot.

The place where kangaroos will watch you warily.

The place where the magpies have taken charge.

The place where the bees thrive.





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In one of my Cloudwatcher's handbooks (yes, of course I have more than one),
it talks about how clouds are the cinema of the sky,
and how blue skies are the enemy of the cloudwatcher.

Anyway.

I like that you can look up at almost any point when there's clouds (provided it's not just like, bland stratus or something), and it really just...constantly changing and evolving.





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Life continues on as it always did.

With dramas.
And Maybe sleeping with me every night,
and Moet too.

Reminders that this home is a family too.





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Today I read two m/m romance books. One by Lisa Henry which I enjoyed, but was...difficult in places (The Preacher's Son), and one which I categorically *didn't* enjoy, despite it winning a Goodread's Readers' Choice Award (which I'm not going to talk about publically, but good god).

I also went to Bunnings, got a sausage sizzle (hell yeah) and got some plants for the gardens. A Kunzea and in the black death spot of the garden (which has so far killed a Calytrix and a Hibbertia), I put a Hakea. They're *meant* to be hardy, but that one tiny patch of garden kills everything. No matter what I do.

Watched some His Dark Materials with Glen, as well as more 3-Gatsu No Lion which I love and is the second time watching for me.

Now, onto clouds.




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The orchids are just starting in late August. Not the cowslips or the donkeys, not even the enamels. But the blue fairy orchids (which I had never seen in person before).

But this day of bushwalking was mostly about how the sun drapes herself all over the land lovingly, filling it with glowing light.


A shaft of light



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Oh boy.

I'm going to be posting a lot of Maralla photos.

This is the bushland that's local to us (and it's the one that'll cause us to evacuate if it ever goes up in flames, which...it does sometimes).

Maralla is something special, and I haven't felt this way about a tract of bushland for a long time.


Easily some of the most pristine bushland I've ever had the pleasure of walking in. We see kangaroos (at the least) every time.



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Recovering from bronchitis and have just had to cancel tomorrow's massage appointment (which the rest of my body needs, but my chest can't handle, lol, also I don't want anyone else to get whatever residual virus might be hanging around).

I'm going to be trying Hoshiai no Sora soon and I'm really looking forward to it.

Craving milky things, and it's frustrating, because trying to explain to my body that I shouldn't eat anything that helps with phlegm production is falling on deaf ears.




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