Yep an Azure, that blue!! What a shame, but yes, our hidden world will make use. We lost one to a glass door which is now decorated with a CD hanging. We have a view (distant) from our balcony of a nest hole in a Blackbutt which Sacred kingfishers are nesting in, and another pair are feeding a termite mound on the edge of the beach.
I was just thinking of blue earlier (while slightly blue these last few days from solastalgia), anyway was reading in Arts & Letters: There are many shades of blue — cerulean, azure, navy, royal — but not a new one in two centuries. Until now...
And from my VIRUS 2020 project: We take a track off the dirt road to Tucker’s Rock, three-walkers-wide between thick bush, a bluish gleam of black,a Satin Bowerbird flies ahead, moments later, a vision vertically above – a male Regent Bowerbird. I catch two wing beats followed by two quick glides, sunshine stimulating molten gold on the open wings, spectacular with the black trim and black belly against the precious blue of lapis lazuli (worth much more than gold).The moment borrowed from over six thousand years of rock hacked out of limestone in the Kokcha River valley (home to the Bamiyan Buddhas which friends found while I stayed back in Kabul under curfew, sick as the dogs, and which I will never see now). The moment borrowed from Horus, the falcon god, protector of Tutankhamun, pure gold with dazzling feathers of painted cloisonné.
And I said to the birders near me - this was a glimpse of benediction, a Van Eyck angel, the lightness of light, lightness of flight. Though perhaps, the cloudless sky was closer to the synthetic ultramarine of Manet.
no blue like the blue after rain then everything has its true smell like childhood returned then the sun learns its yellow
the funny (perhaps the wrong word) about that bird is that I saw what to me looked to be the same bird lying inert in exactly the same place about a month earlier ... but I returned to the spot an hour after that sighting and it was gone ... I can only assume that either there's strong family resemblance and certain window related habits in common or this bugger came back to the proper self-topping having not quite got there before ... either way, bird out of this world
Yep an Azure, that blue!! What a shame, but yes, our hidden world will make use. We lost one to a glass door which is now decorated with a CD hanging. We have a view (distant) from our balcony of a nest hole in a Blackbutt which Sacred kingfishers are nesting in, and another pair are feeding a termite mound on the edge of the beach.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking of blue earlier (while slightly blue these last few days from solastalgia), anyway was reading in Arts & Letters: There are many shades of blue — cerulean, azure, navy, royal — but not a new one in two centuries. Until now...
And from my VIRUS 2020 project: We take a track off the dirt road to Tucker’s Rock, three-walkers-wide between thick bush, a bluish gleam of black,a Satin Bowerbird flies ahead, moments later, a vision vertically above – a male Regent Bowerbird. I catch two wing beats followed by two quick glides, sunshine stimulating molten gold on the open wings, spectacular with the black trim and black belly against the precious blue of lapis lazuli (worth much more than gold).The moment borrowed from over six thousand years of rock hacked out of limestone in the Kokcha River valley (home to the Bamiyan Buddhas which friends found while I stayed back in Kabul under curfew, sick as the dogs, and which I will never see now). The moment borrowed from Horus, the falcon god, protector of Tutankhamun, pure gold with dazzling feathers of painted cloisonné.
And I said to the birders near me - this was a glimpse of benediction, a Van Eyck angel, the lightness of light, lightness of flight. Though perhaps, the cloudless sky was closer to the synthetic ultramarine of Manet.
no blue like the blue after rain
ReplyDeletethen everything has its true smell
like childhood returned
then the sun learns its yellow
the funny (perhaps the wrong word) about that bird is that I saw what to me looked to be the same bird lying inert in exactly the same place about a month earlier ... but I returned to the spot an hour after that sighting and it was gone ... I can only assume that either there's strong family resemblance and certain window related habits in common or this bugger came back to the proper self-topping having not quite got there before ... either way, bird out of this world