Rainy city
Nov. 14th, 2018 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seahearth In Melbourne. When we disembarked it was like stepping into a warm bath; I liked it, unexpectedly. Slightly cloudy evening. This morning the clouds are low and raining, and I believe it is what people call cool. The shiny towers vanish upward into mistiness.
On the way in from the airport I kept looking at the clouds. I told myself it must be an illusion that they looked so different, then decided it was a combination of the wide expanse of sky, and being so much above gum leaves.
I have not found out the Boon Wurrung word for gum tree. No online dictionaries simply searchable, some I think I could download and I'll try that later today. It's distressing how absolutely nothing there is of the language here, to a tourist glance. There are some sculptures in the streets that look indigenous-influenced, nothing else to suggest to one that Melbourne was not the first habitation set up on this land. Google says there's a gallery of indigenous art not too far from us though, I will check it out.
Sam saw a raven on our trip in, but I was looking out the other side. Our apartment is nice, though a bit loud from the street. This morning I walked to the Yarra, and saw rainbow lorakeets. Now we are going out to breakfast and the aquarium.
On the way in from the airport I kept looking at the clouds. I told myself it must be an illusion that they looked so different, then decided it was a combination of the wide expanse of sky, and being so much above gum leaves.
I have not found out the Boon Wurrung word for gum tree. No online dictionaries simply searchable, some I think I could download and I'll try that later today. It's distressing how absolutely nothing there is of the language here, to a tourist glance. There are some sculptures in the streets that look indigenous-influenced, nothing else to suggest to one that Melbourne was not the first habitation set up on this land. Google says there's a gallery of indigenous art not too far from us though, I will check it out.
Sam saw a raven on our trip in, but I was looking out the other side. Our apartment is nice, though a bit loud from the street. This morning I walked to the Yarra, and saw rainbow lorakeets. Now we are going out to breakfast and the aquarium.
