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Dude looks like a cabbage. Sandy Bay, April 2011.

I’ve not idea what this plant is, but I think I like it.

I was going to write a poem today about Tasmania, but I couldn’t find a good enough rhyme for “deindustrialisation”.

I was also going to look into Buddhism, but all that cycling of suffering, death and rebirth gets me down.

It’s been raining for four days and I am starting to get sick of it.
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ratatouille's archives said…
Hi! Kris...
The photograph is..."beautiful!

Kris said,"I was going to write a poem today about Tasmania, but I couldn’t find a good enough rhyme for “deindustrialisation”...
LOL!

Let hope that it doesn't rain for 40 days and 40 night!

The quote is very intellectual? scientific? Nice quote!
Thanks, for sharing!
DeeDee ;-D
13 April 2011 at 14:59
-K- said…
Four days of rain? That happens once every few years here in LA, where this kind of plant is quite common. There are some growing in the courtyard of this apartment, as a matter of fact.
15 April 2011 at 00:45
Kris McCracken said…
DeeDee, that's Mr bertrand Russell...

-K-, no rain at the moment. There are plenty of grey clouds though...
15 April 2011 at 11:54
Roddy said…
It is a succulent of the cacti family. My grandfather grew virtually thousands of them when we were kids.
How about Sanitisation? Perhaps that isn't a word but it rhymes with what they are doing to our state.
15 April 2011 at 12:53
Kris McCracken said…
That doesn't rhyme.
15 April 2011 at 13:24
Roddy said…
Deindustrialiation.
Sanit i satition.
It rhymes to me.
16 April 2011 at 16:39
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