Limbourg (July)

The Limbourg Brothers’ miniaturisation of lyrebird land around Bulleen in the Winter Quarter, houses of Crab and Lion, is a blue Georgian window into a world before Georges. Early wattle blossom sprinkles as it’s shaken by July rains, remains of which stretch over grasslands in contiguous puddles. Fronds of gold travel down the rising river waters. Fifteenth century Bulleen is not as we see it today. An atypical absence of general human activity tells us snow’s in the air and sensible people are staying out of the weather, up on dry land, under possum skins, enjoying their very rich hours.