like water for chocolate

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untitled #53 [yan yean cemetery, yan yean, victoria, australia, 2009]

from the stable yard

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I ticked quite a few things off my to-do list today but not the major ones I need to. Like cleaning the kitchen and finding new clients, both of which I need to have done "yesterday".

While it was mostly a good day because I closed off some items and stopped to pet Susie on my way back from the high street. Tonight I'm feeling flat.

Finding a flatmate is proving to be as time-consuming and demoralising as trying to find a new flat usually is. I really don't have time for it right now, but I need a new flatmate as soon as humanly possible.

I had lots of energy and focus today for bringing in business and getting more of my work out into the world. But, instead, it had to be channelled into more immediate domestic tasks.

When I could finally sit down to decide what to share today, I perused many possible places from my travels near and far. But it was one of those days when nothing felt right, nothing fit my mood.

Eventually, I settled on this image, which I actually edited back in September 2019 but for some reason hadn't previously shared online.

I took this photo of the entrance to Hatfield House from the stable yard back in July 2019. It reminds me of so many Merchant-Ivory period films.

The image feels like standing on the outside looking in, which feels appropriate to my mood tonight. But also holds the promise of possibility, which will hopefully be my mood on waking tomorrow.

sign of the cross

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his sacred heart

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many hands make light work

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fall at your feet

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(not a) good friday

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crown of thorns

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with open arms #105

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with open arms #152

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a child’s bauble

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heaven or hell

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This is another photograph I submitted to issue #149 of Shots Magazine.

Like encrypted, this photo was taken in the ossuary housed in the crypt at St Leonard's Church in Hythe, Kent.

It's a fascinating place for people like me, but maybe not up everyone's alley...

This was taken about 14:00 one day in summer. The mixture of daylight through the window of the crypt and the artificial lighting overhead creates a nice contrast of red and gold light on the shelves of skulls facing each other.

the inside of her elbow

Day sixty-six of The 100 Day Project.

Illustrations:

Couple by Gustave Staal from Œuvres illustrées de Balzac, volume 1-2