📷Day 6 | Well #mbsept 🏡

water In the Adelaide Japanese Garden, water from a bamboo pipe fills a small well in  a rock. To the left stands a stone lantern.

Micro.blog photo challenge day 5 | forest
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A paddock with chickens foraging. A sign above the fence reads: Food Forest.

📷 🏡A couple of weeks ago we visited CERES urban farm, with its community garden, cafe, bike workshop, nursery, bookstore, playground, market, chooks and, yes, a food forest. Worth a visit if you’re ever in Melbourne.

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Vegetable beds at CERES community gardens, Melbourne.

📷 Day 4 | orange #mbsept

A stenciled sign painted in orange over old, peeling paint on a wall reads: Be tidy.

📸 Day 3 | Precious
Three days into the Micro.blog photo challenge already! Time spent simply relaxing in the back garden is precious.

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A person wearing teal relaxes in a bed of flowering clover.

How many books are you reading?

On Mastodon, Evan Prodromou asked “How many books are you reading?” and I was slightly shocked by the results.

Only 5% of 569 people said they were reading six or more books. I thought I was quite normal, but it turns out I’m not. Currently I’m officially reading seven books, but that doesn’t include the four books I’ve finished recently that never made it onto the ‘currently reading’ list. Somehow, having a list of books I’m reading makes me want to read different books. I get through about 35-40 a year, which isn’t a terribly low number, so even though I get stuck on some books, seeming to take months to finish them, I still manage to read quite a few.

Perhaps I’m just starting into my to-be-read pile too early. Maybe I could resist this.

Actually I don’t think I’m at all normal, but everything I do feels normal. And who am I kidding? I can’t resist starting new books. Can you?

📸 Day 2 | Buildup
The Micro.blog photo challenge continues! There was a lot of buildup to the blue moon supermoon earlier this week. My verdict? It was 30% more super than usual. But the moon’s always quite amazing, isn’t it?

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The supermoon viewed between tree branches in my local park at night

Finished reading: Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon. 📚
Loving Austin Kleon’s blog, I ordered his trilogy from my local bookstore. Also finished Keep Going. Now just have Steal Like an Artist to read. Yes, I’m reading them in the wrong order LOL.

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📸 Day 1 | Abstract The Micro.blog photo challenge begins! Most of the paintings in our house are abstract. This is part of a tryptych by Sara Cunningham-Bell.

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An abstract painting, blue, green and orange.

Looking forward to the micro.blog photoblogging challenge, starting soon at a blog near you. 📷