Carrying a phone or dedicated camera with you allows you to be a visual storyteller. A journal less filled with words and more with colour images provides an enticement to continue on the scrolling journey. Not every day is photographed, but surprisingly many are which gives me a chance to share the beauty of where I live with you.
Rather than adopt a tweet style approach, I am, as an Australian going to culturally misappropriate the Englishman James May's documentary style of culturally misappropriating a Japanese literary form by creating and applying a haiku poem to events in a visual storytelling genre. For those who have forgotten the haiku poem formula, it is three lines with the first and last lines consisting of 5 syllables and the middle line consisting of seven.
It's like sudoku for writers.
To explain the first two lines... My mother in law "Po Po" - Grandma in Cantonese... is double vaxxed and we decided to visit a restaurant as they were again open for business providing you were vaxed. Po Po didn't have the digital copy of the certificate and we had forgotten her password to retrieve it... To the restaurant's credit, we were kicked out (nicely) because we couldn't show proof of a vaccination certificate. We are happy to go back because we know the restaurant upholds the rules about vaccination requirements. Of course, these rules are in themselves a moving feast, but we, like a famous tennis star, should abide by them, even to our own personal inconvenience.
There are no more judgement related words that follow other than wonderment and pleasure to be had at what we enjoyed in Melbourne and surrounds during the month of November 2021. You can click on the photo grids below to view full-screen versions of the images.
In these following 8 days, we went from paddling on Albert Park Lake with almost dire consequences to feasting on cakes and hot chocolate in Le petite Gateau followed by meeting with my brother on his whirlwind trip to Melbourne. Christmas and Santa at Highpoint followed by flowers and celebration along Swanston St and fun in Federation Square.
Floral clock not looking too floral, art exhibition construction in the gardens and a quiet stroll through the ground floor and outside of the National Gallery of Victoria. A Mexican food festival in Flagstaff to finish off the journey.
Almost all of these destinations we walk to from our home in inner Melbourne.
Credits:
Mark Christie