Week 15/2025: I love autumn

Posted On 18 April 2025

Week of 7 April 2025

This week’s highlight was Kramstable coming home for a few days to receive an award from his college.

A plane landing on an airfield. There are no other planes. The grass is dry and the sky is blue. — Quite a contrast to last time we were on this hill

It was so good to see him. And, of course, I was very proud and excited that his school recognised him for his amazing achievements (including getting the top score) in the subject he’s most passionate about.

But it was very hard to let him go again.

I love autumn

I especially love the light in the morning. The early mornings have pushed sunrise back by an hour so I have more time to explore the beach.

Beach walking

Here are some photos from this week.

A pale, clear sky with a bank of dark clouds ov er the river. The tops of the clouds are puffy and tinted pink — Cloud formation over the river. Tuesday, 6.41 am

Pilot boat Kelly was out on a mission on Tuesday morning.

The rising sun is casting golden light over the river. A small motorised boat is moving through the light path. The sky is filled with orange clouds. The hills are dark. — Pilot Boat Kelly. Tuesday, 6,47 am

I had an interesting idea while I was out walking on Sunday morning. I’m not sure where that will take me, so I’m keen to explore it some more.

A large puffy cloud is catching the sunlight and reflecting it in the water — A very big cloud. Sunday, 6.50 am.

And evening serenity

As well as the morning light, the evening sky is beautiful too.

An images of layers of soft colours in the sky from blue to yellow to grey — Evening sky. Friday, 5.31 pm.

I can’t get enough of these cloudless skies where the colours are so soft and I can tweak the photograph to bring out slightly more than what I could actually see.

Also, Aliens.

A series of pink and grey lenticular clouds that look like alien spaceships in the sky over a tree-topped hill — Evening sky. Thursday, 6.41 pm.

Summary of the week

Habit tracker

Go outside & exercise first thing (7 days): 7/7
15 minutes morning exercise sequence (7 days): 5/7
Hip exercises (5 days): 5/5
2 walks or bike rides or a combination (6 days): 6/6
Long walk (1 day): 0/1
Walk 8,000 steps (7 days): 5/7
9.00 shutdown & dim lights (6 days): 2/6
Evening routine (6 days): 1/6

What did I learn this week?

A “prospect poem” is one where the poet is looking out over a landscape from a hill or some other high vantage point.

What did I notice this week?

Plovers siting on the rocks at the beach.

A plover is sitting on a rock in the water tat the beach. The sky is hazy. There are hills in the background — Plover on a rock (Zoomed in phone photo. Not great.)

I have never seen plovers sitting on rocks in the water. They’re always on the sand doing their plover standing thing. These two plovers weren’t on the same rock, mind you. They have to keep the appropriate distance.

What was the best thing this week?

Kramstable coming home.

What am I reading this week?

Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
‘From Ely to Welney’, a chapter from Noreen Masud’s book A Flat Place

What am I watching this week?

Australian Survivor
Resident Alien
Doctor Who ‘Logopolis’
Doctor Who ‘The Robot Revolution’

I also went to Artfully Queer Digital, a showcase of some amazing digital art, design, sounds and video from Tasmanian LGBTIQA+ artists.

A piece I loved was Brady Michaels’ work, My Pop Life, “a series of digital posters that share [Brady’s] experience of coming of age as a queer teenager in the late 1980s in Tasmania”.

An artwork called MY POP LIFE which is a digital image of a square bedroom standing alone in space, with posters on the inside walls — Brady Michaels: My Pop Life

This work was also exhibited as a series of posters within Brady’s recreated teenage bedroom at the Counihan Gallery in Melbourne last year. I’d loved to have seen it set up like that.

What am I listening to this week?

Mozart’s First Horn Concerto, 2nd Movement

Week 15/2025: I love autumn

Week of 7 April 2025