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Is that the Kagoshima Choo-Choo? Gas hop on

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Yes, that is the Kagoshima Shinkansen coming in, past Kagoshima’s very own puffing volcano.The painter is there at cross-maintenance purposes, and seems to be keeping up. If you buy a gashopon at the station, and really there is no why you shouldn’t, the train series will always deliver a train to to you on time. And yes, from

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Bart Brassica’s Whittled Down Family Crest

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Bart Brassica has for some time now aspired to the notion of a Brassica Family Crest, ever since Granny Eggwhistle observed he looked Crest. Fallen. So in order to address this lack, and get back at Frank Winkler who said, or so it was reported via Mavis Eggwhistle, that Bart was whittle-less, Bart has taken up whittling in

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A Palimpested Shopping List Shows off its Lighter Side

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A Palimpested Shopping List Shows off its Lighter Side Image

While any list is good, here even the un-list - that tracery of pen on cheap paper leaves a feint imprint but first prize in the Best On Page show is the shadow thrown down by the sky-light blind. Will any remnant of the image remain outside of this one? Apply to the page for further information. While

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Hole-some Cover Ups : The Underfoot Foundry Art of Japanese Cities

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Hole-some Cover Ups : The Underfoot Foundry Art of Japanese Cities Image

While looking around and up is what you mostly do on holidays, in Japan it is good to keep a weatther-eye out for each city’s emblematic manhole covers. Here is a set from Kyushu, Fukuoka’s take of cherry blossom, the lovely town of Imari’s what I surmise is Pawlonia leaf and flower, and at the bottom Kagoshima’s enigmatic

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Whiter Shades and Vintage Linen

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Getting into bed with fresh white sheets, pressed pillow cases, a cream wool blanket with a satin edge, under an vintage embroidered French ecru linen sheet, which was old but unused, still with the blue stencil outline visible between the neat stitching, a nuptial gift from an aunt the best part of four decades ago, I seem to

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Two Dragons walk into a Bar

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No, just joking, but it’s a two for one dragon fly event, the shadow dragon showing its best angle on the the yellow railing. Nothing bar the sun can do this. No, just joking, but it’s a two for one dragon fly event, the shadow dragon showing its best angle on the the yellow railing. Nothing bar ...

at 14:51

In a Flat Spin, Top Speed Origami

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If you happen to be in Kagoshima, on the island of Kyushu, in Japan on the overhead walkway to the Aquarium, you might be lucky like I was if you stop by a handicraft shop run by seniors, and even if their very good aprons don’t fit you, they didn’t fit me being made for and by lovely

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Rice Miles, or Wry Smiles - The train from Imari to Fukuoka

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Rice Miles, or Wry Smiles - The train from Imari to Fukuoka Image

To get from the wonderful pottery town of Imari in Saga prefecture Kyushu, where lovely pots and porcelain have been despatched to far flung ports in Europe since before the Meiji Restoration, take the slow chuffing DC 125 One Man Diesel Car - complete with anime figures - past the rice crops of Ochichosari to Karatsu, taking in

at 22:14

In the Shadow Forest - Kiso Road Stories

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On the Kiso Road, along Nakasendo Way, at the top of the pass at Yubuhara, this group of deities stay shadow quiet but, like a moment of knowing, seem effortlessly, elusively elegiac. Of course one is not to know that this quiet group will always be waiting for you, and as the walk up through the forest being

at 22:33

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Image

Food markets are the hero of any locale, and while Makishi Public Market is small and the ground floor seems to be just seafood and pickles, the fish include the requisite Suess-ian colour scheme of Red Fish Blue Fish - and if you’re wondering about that glaucous eye on the lower right, and think it is quite toad-ish

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Fell Fall and Fen at Shiraito no Taki - White Thread Waterfall in Karuizawa

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Fell Fall and Fen at Shiraito no Taki - White Thread Waterfall in Karuizawa Image

Waves, waterfalls and fountains, all types of white water, are the perfect counterpoint to green scenery, an anodyne for the eyes, a breath of fen air, and this Shiraito Falls, is an exemplar of its kind, with its long arc of continuity, its water has spent six years seeping from the rain fall on Mount Asama, slightly warmed

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Kodachrome Dusk does its Thing Okinawa Style

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Kodachrome Dusk does its Thing Okinawa Style Image

Here a pixel fine slice of an Iphone photo delivers the non-contemporary - perhaps it is the salt air, the storm rolling in from east, or a wave of ‘70’s nostalgia that has rendered this image of Nashiro Beach on the south west side of Okinawa so very Kodachrome, or it might be that land remembers everything. Here a

at 15:25

Gingham Style ! Black and White Dog Couture

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Gingham Style ! Black and White Dog Couture Image

It’s not Gangnam Style but Gingham Style for this checker be-decked Poochie who is being taken for a ride in uptown Karuizawa. So many questions , but there is no shadow of a doubt that this is not a a black and white case. It’s not Gangnam Style but Gingham Style for this checker be-decked Poochie who is

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Is This the Line for the Chattanooga Choo-Choo -Bart’s Busman’s Holiday

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Is This the Line for the Chattanooga Choo-Choo -Bart’s Busman’s Holiday Image

Bart Brassica is, it seems, on holidays, and while he has gone singularly Dutch and Dining Out (Stand Up Stood UP ) and as been spotted at a diner, how does he get around? Here the mystery not so much thickens as coagulates, those with keen eyes will see he is a Oberndorf, a previously undiscovered railway station

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The Stone Water Basin and the Bamboo Dipper at Rest

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The Stone Water Basin and the Bamboo Dipper at Rest Image

Inside the New Otani Hotel in Tokyo there is an incredible 400 year old Japanese garden, among all sorts of lovely things is this stone basin, with its bamboo dipper to make an offer of water to to the stone deity standing alongside. But what to make of the narrow shelf of bamboo? Is it a resting place

at 17:40

Next Level - Roof Top Gardens in Tokyo

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Next Level - Roof Top Gardens in Tokyo Image

Yes, here we have levelled up with Ginza’s famous Seiko Clock, having found Mitsukoshi Department Store’s level nine roof top garden. An elevated oasis for sparrows and people looking for a breath of green space, and when the Seiko Clock chimes Big Ben’s theme bing bongs, well you get a little bit - sukoshi!- of London thrown in

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Winning Ways - Twin Stars Sparks

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Back in the day when my children were small, I read loads of children’s books, and had been known to be so engrossed I would unintentionally stop reading aloud, to go into the top gear of reading silently. But last Sunday I settled into a sunny spot on the deck, and read Twin Stars, Volume 1 of Charlotte

at 14:57

Many Hands Make Light Work - In the Photon Field

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Many Hands Make Light Work - In the Photon Field Image

Granny Eggwhistle says she is sure the new Farm Hand might be a member of an occult, because under hand is one thing but Over Hand like this is unnatural. But why has Farmer Bart Brassica taken on an extra Hand? It seems, as he is away on a faux holiday (see double-double-dutching-bart-fakes-fancy.html…) and has applied the adage

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The Fleeting Fineness of Flowers Down

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The Fleeting Fineness of Flowers Down Image

Double ruffled tulips are fine examples of the under rated ephemera of fading flowers, they have a wabi-sabi all their own, here the tulips’ touch down reframes their faux Kutani-ware Wedgewood vase - itself a floral fiat of form and pattern. Something about the surrounding crowd of bijou here suggests World of Interiors, and makes me wonder why

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The Sea in Two Minds and an Undertow

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The Sea in Two Minds and an Undertow Image

It’s easy to forget, or maybe not realise, that like turning the heel for a sock, the ocean knits itself around corners into bays, here the north eastern edge of North Stradbroke shows precisely how the sea can be in two minds about flow and crimp and flat where the Pacific meets Moreton Bay. The water on one

at 14:24

Stand Up, Stood Up? Bart Dines Out.

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As Bart Brassica is holidaying double Dutch style, see Episode double-double-dutching-bart-fakes-fancy.html , he has been wistfully waiting at Glenn’s Historic Gettysburg Diner, at which there are 166 vacant seats. Is so much emptiness ominous in a diner open 24 hours a day? Notwithtsanding the lack of customers Bart appears to have been Stood Up by Mavis Eggwhistle, though as

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Feeding Dandelions to a Donkey and the Donkey’s Auntie

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Feeding Dandelions to a Donkey and the Donkey’s Auntie Image

These two Donquettas were not coquettish about dandelion greens, though there was some jockeying, at which they excel, for access, and while this was amiable enough at midday, the next morning, maybe they got up on the wrong side of the stables, but the Aunt was not nice to the niece and vice versa. If ever I have

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A Green World in Three Scenes

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A Myanmar market stack of green leaves leaning towards a Fibonacci spiral , two stems of Angophora leaves, thoughtfully snipped off by sulfur-crested cockatoos, and a tableau of acorn, oak leaf, birch cone and my green Lamy fountain pen, all contribute to a visual paraphrase of John Donne’s green thoughts in a green shade. A Myanmar market stack of

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Get Your Skates On , St. Kildering Your Way Into Nostalgia

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Pink skates with yellow laces, scuffed toes reflect on their uneven roll call of days along the Esplanade, what can explain their sense of ennui, ready to go but glazed inside the glass, the palms in colonnades reflected, the distant idea of a wooden rink at Ettalong, with its corrugated, companionable percussion? Pink skates with yellow laces, scuffed

at 13:56

Blue in the Face

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The Blue-faced honey eater may be the only creature that looks good in Blue eye shadow, and being so very dapperly attuned to the cafe colour system it would be hard to begrudge them a few muffin crumbs. Blueberry I wonder? The Blue-faced honey eater may be the only creature that looks good in Blue eye shadow, and being

at 15:38

Sets and Setsability

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It’s the set of three for me, even things waiting to be set up with a dedicated tableau are given a temporary set place of three, here two modern pieces and a vintage souvenir of the Jenolan Caves with its psychic stalagmite emanating its own aura, are all the better for being set up as a trio. More

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Two Birds in the Blossom

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While one might say these birds, the green porcelain, the small black bird and their two amigos, more easily seen below, are if not in hand then at hand, they are also in, or at least proximate to, the bush, in this case cherry blossom. The duality of birds being neither here nor there, there being more than

at 13:34

Double Double Dutching - Bart Fakes Fancy Mini-Break

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Double Double Dutching - Bart Fakes Fancy Mini-Break Image

Bart Brassica is ambivalent about holidays, preferring to abide his time at home but, mindful of his social media profile sometimes will faux-cerise his background and write a witty tag line to incinerate - his word not mine - that he is exoterating ( again a Bartism which I’ve picked up from his Insta post- and in case

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Acorns in the Leaf Field

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A stroll, what other pace would do, of the fine Botanic Gardens in Castlemaine, Vic, shows these bronze seed pods, which though growing nowhere, give pause for consideration being so totally attuned to their oak leaf allies. Perfect autumnal parking. A stroll, what other pace would do, of the fine Botanic Gardens in Castlemaine, Vic, shows these bronze seed pods, which

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Sub Divo - Bart Goes Motto Mad

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Bart has been toying with the idea of sub dividing Brass Acres into hobby farmlets, and seeking a bold new family crest which he believes will convince Huntington County admin , has been considering either the phrase ‘Avis Avid Aviso’ which Mavis tells him is Latin for ‘go ask the birds’ and Sub Divo but he has stood

at 07:36

Bottoms Up- a Sideways Take on Dinghies

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By demolition of the neighbouring shed, these up-ended dinghies have appeared at Shelley Beach beside ( (yes) The Boatshed, their dark or algal hulls neat shapes - how did they get up there, and how do they get down? Which little boat glides best and lively over the waves? Collectively do they say ‘closed for winter’ or loitering

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Tableaus to Make Roses Last

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It may be a little compulsive but mostly I take photos of flowers I’ve arranged or grown, to record the pleasure of that fleeting moment when the blooms ripen but still hold, when the vase is the right match, the setting doesn’t fight with these, and the light balances is soft enough so the colour is saturated and

at 14:38

The No Scissors Paper Bird

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Though not a native of the tin-scape of Uluṟu - a postcard from the inimitable Dan Brown - this paper Benteveo, that arrived par avion from Argentina, is well adapted to the colour scheme. The bird’s other name Pitangus sulphuratus is a vocal, yellow chested passarine, and I will say it was charming to make both it and

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Shaping Up: Collages of Pantaloons and Leaves

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Drawing gum leaves and nuts is a bit like getting lost in the forest, best to keep going, looking for edges, and perhaps stone curlews and swimmers. Retrace your steps wearing fancy dress, carrying a washi paper cherry blossom and don’t forget: tessellated Wiley. Drawing gum leaves and nuts is a bit like getting lost in the forest, best

at 11:25

A Leaf out of the Bat’s book

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The lovely Bat Wing Fern, this charmingly winged frond found by Lake Saint Clair, botanically Histiopteris incisa, here shows its likeness to both bat and butterfly, and in its symmetry seems more likely to fly off than stay put, but it will no doubt leave the airborne part to its fine spores. The lovely Bat Wing Fern, this

at 07:07

The Round Square Roots of Trees

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Each view, potentially has its perfect frame at Lake Saint Clair it might be the uprighted, galactic explosion of silvered roots of trees, drift wood grey from floods and seches, telescopic in their perspective, a species of clock, which ticks off time like fleas. Each view, potentially has its perfect frame at Lake Saint Clair it might be the uprighted,

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