Category: close-up

Week 49/2023: Tis the season of the agapanthus

Agapanthus season Week of 4 December 2023 I have this fascination with agapanthus, which grows everywhere in my suburb. It’s one of the most ugly plants I know, and I despise seeing the massive flower heads everywhere I walk. Agapanthus praecox ssp. orientalis is native to Southern Africa and...

Week 49/2022: Not much to say

Week of 5 December 2022 Not much to say This week was mostly the same as last week, with a couple of exciting things at the end of the week that involved Kramstable. I went out searching for agapanthus and kept exercising my shoulder. 22 for 2022 update I’m...

Catching up

So this blog-as-accountability-partner thing isn’t working out as well as I’d hoped and I’ve missed several weeks. The several weeks don’t have much going for them. All those 6/7 and 7/7 weeks seem like a lifetime away, and most of the healthy habits I’ve been trying so hard to...

P365 – Day 184 – closeup #7 – flowers

In keeping with my attempt to finish off some scrapbooking layouts, this weekend I’ve been working on one that was based on a scraplift challenge posted on Papercraft Additictions some time last year. It’s been sitting around in my ‘work in progress album’ since then. Here’s part of it....

P365 – Day 182 – closeup #5 – files

One of the things I’m doing at work is looking through some old files to see if I can find out how and why we got to the position we are now in. There’s some interesting stuff in there....

P365 – Day 181 – closeup #4 – layout

I have a lot of scrapbook layouts that are in my ‘work in progress’ albums. (Yes, albums. I filled one up with unfinished layouts, so I needed to get another one.) A lot of the layouts are pretty much complete, other than needing a title or journalling. I’m not...

P365 – Day 180 – closeup #3 – ice

Well if yesterday was cold, today was freezing. I didn’t check the temperature outside when we left home, but a reasonable guess, based on the weather report, was about -2 degrees. This is the ice on the car windscreen. I like this one. It reminds me of the moon....