Green Poles: Nature imitates art

The Green Casurina Poles of Russell Wharf

Jackson Pollack's Blue Poles

I have been on the ferry from Russell Island to the other Southern Moreton Bay Islands an average  at least once a week in the last 13 years. That's about 700 times that I have walked past the scraggy mildewed castings that struggle to grow next to the busy ferry wharf. Never thought of them as worth focussing on them.
But, today in the light rain dulled day their luminosity pulled me up abruptly. It was the natural equivalent of one of my favourite paintings of all time, Jackson Pollack's enigmatic 'Blue Poles', a feature of the Australian National Gallery in Canberra.
Once again Henry David Thoreau had it right in  his book Walden :
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” 
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