📷🪴Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 20: “houseplant”

In hot weather, spraying the leaves of this umbrella plant creates a noticeable cooling effect.

A rosette of umbrella plant leaves in close-up, with water droplets on each leaf.

How’s your coffee art these days? I predict big improvements for my game. ☕️

A mug of coffee viewed from above. The milk has been poured inexpertly in blobs.

📷 🗂️🗃️Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 19: “analogue”

A card index box, or Zettelkasten. In Australia, these are called system cards.

📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 18: “portico”

When it comes to fancy architecture, nothing beats the Australian vernacular style.

An Australian tin shed with a portico, complete with hammock.

📷 Day 18: “fabric #mbsept

1970s wallpaper at The Foundations, Portland.

A geometric pattern featuring circular and diamond shapes in shades of brown and white.

A gift from my son: three intriguing books for my to-read pile (which never seems to get any smaller)! 📚

A small pile of three books on a wooden table.

📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 17: “early”. Cloud on the headland, slow to clear.

A view over the sea of a distant headland, topped with a thick white cloud.

📷 🚴Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 16: “road”

Came across a surprising sign on a cycling tour of Argyll: “Unsuitable road for sat-nav users”. Having just cycled the pot-holes, I’d have to agree!

A cyclist on a deeply-rutted rural farm track, approaching a large sign that reads: Unsuitable road for Sat-Nav users.

📷🐈 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 15: “patience”

If you wait long enough, something is bound to turn up.

My abby cat lies in wait in the long grass. Its pose is a bit like that of the Sphynx.

📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 14: “horizon”

Mysterious Lake George. The windfarm on the horizon powers Sydney’s water desalination plant.

Lake George, Australia, with cattle grazing in the foreground and a windfarm on distant hills at the horizon.