that's life...

 life

unexpected visitors

unexpected journeys

unexpected detours

return to the main road

erased

Youngsters parading their bikes in the Westernport Festival at Hastings on a Saturday morning.

I would drop everything to watch this community festival, sadly now dissolved.

I would rather share this as an image of a detour than make a fuss about being exhausted on this day...

Too exhausted to create my usual posts...

So now, on the 8th March, I have turned back the clock to fill the gap.

high tide...

high tide surf pounds over a rocky shelf till mystical #cataracts shiver and shimmer #vss365 #tanka 📷My photo - 2013 - London Bridge Ocean Beach, Mornington Peninsula

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 4 March 2026 at 14:53

high tide
surf pounds over
a rocky shelf
till mystical #cataracts
shiver and shimmer#vss365 #tanka

📷My photo - 2013 - London Bridge Ocean Beach, Mornington Peninsula pic.twitter.com/JxDAyoFpVB

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 4, 2026

pixelated shapes...

pixelated shapes in coded colours shine on my screen stirring the art of algorithmic #splendour #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 March 2026 at 08:43

pixelated shapes
in coded colours
shine on my screen
stirring the art of
algorithmic #splendour #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 2, 2026

sleeping heat...

sleeping heat cautious slow winds soft air and #timid rains #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 2 March 2026 at 08:32

sleeping heat
cautious
slow winds
soft air and#timid rains#vss365 #haiku

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) March 1, 2026

planets in line...

Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House. pic.twitter.com/WgNzOYTBNP

— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) February 28, 2026

public art...

public art in unexpected places attracts attention #tanka This one is on a power box, by a main Dromana shopping strip, by Dromana beach - fringing Port Phillip Bay in Victoria. 📷My photo 1st March 2019

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 March 2026 at 10:10

A not so common off-road sign at Balnarring on the Mornington Peninsula Victoria...

📷My photo - 1st March, 2014 pic.twitter.com/MXFfNcPkTO

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) February 28, 2026

The above sign tends to appear to be a personal initiative...verging on public art???? 

cracks in thirsty earths...

cracks in thirsty earths our urgent, endless #quest for the weather gods to understand the farmers' pulse sunshine of the liquid kind I wish would weep on my garden #vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 1 March 2026 at 09:33

cracks in thirsty earths
our urgent, endless #quest
for the weather gods
to understand
the farmers' pulse

sunshine
of the liquid kind
I wish
would weep
on my garden#vss365 #tanka #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) February 28, 2026