Green Movements Beyond the Glass

Movements of Green 30th Nov 2007

Windows and their views are reality TV. My window view is no exception, although its script is the reality of wind and leaf, and its visitors move deliberate and I stare at them like fish in a terrarium.

But this TV comes with no script, at least not one that is easily discerned. Surely, this view is one inspired by the trinity and infinity of air, and earth - what grows out of it, and the birds that visit it and the rain that sustains it and the sun that summons its leaves upwards and the birds into its shades.

Today a cold front is making itself visible - clouds move from the west and the branches of the Platanus are bending and holding their green spinnaker like sails.

The red coral-like flowers of the Illawarra Flame (Brachyciton) hang amid the star-fish leaves of the green reef that surrounds them and people move undetected silhouetted by the Jasmine hedge beyond.