Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist

  • Escape

    The first thing that registered was the dry metallic taste. A singularly unpleasant but not unfamiliar sensation. And then the cold – she realised that she was in her underwear and a t-shirt, how she usually slept, but she felt a gritty dampness beneath her side. She heard herself moaning as she tried to lift her…

  • Beginning

      The morning sunlight filtered through the gauzy curtains, the golden glow landing on her bare skin. She was tangled in the white sheets, with an arm thrown back above her head and one foot peeking out from beneath the sheet. She looked peaceful and happy and was in that comforting, warm embrace of heavy…

  • Tea Time #12

    If you didn’t know, Justine at Eclectic Odds n Sods hosts a Tea Time Tuesday event each month. This month she featured some chocolate tea – you should take a look! My tea time this month is from the café in the lobby of my latest favourite hotel in Melbourne (The Larwill Studio). We had…

  • Another Brisbane (Post) Sunset

    Just a quick one to show you the light gathering above the horizon about 20 minutes after sunset the other night. Just glorious. For Lucile’s Photo101 Rehab Clinic – swing on by and visit us sometime. These photos were taken with my Olympus OMD EM5 with the 17mm (35mm equivalent) lens. x desleyjane

  • Roy G. Biv (WPC 2)

    A just had to add a second post with photos featuring all of the colours of the rainbow in each photo for the Weekly Photo Challenge. This was fun to do 🙂 x desleyjane

  • Roy G. Biv (WPC 1)

    My timing seems to be quite bad. This week’s photo challenge (ROY G. BIV) is all the colours of the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) and last week I published a post of some Rainbow Roses, which would have fitted this theme perfectly. So, I pottered about at home this morning and came…

  • Secret

    She leaned against the railing and stared out at the darkness of the ocean, the waves whipping against the side of the ship, foaming the water so that she could almost make out stripes of white, turquoise and deep, deep blue. She watched the foam disappear from view as the ship slipped through the water…

  • The Light 

    Milly was cold, so cold. Her daughters were fussing around her room, pulling up her blankets, arranging flowers, tidying the nightstand. They were such good girls, all three of them. They’d fought like cats and dogs as children, but they loved each other just as fiercely.  And they loved her fiercely as well, she suddenly…

  • Getting Perspective (Eclectic Corner #12.3)

    Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…   – CS Lewis. For Justine’s Eclectic Corner #12 – Perspective (Quote). Why this quote? If we just keep going through life, doing the things we do day by day, we don’t really notice how we are growing…

  • Rainbow Roses

    I was at a florist’s recently and she pointed out her “Rainbow Roses”. These stunning roses are created in Colombia. In fact, she told me that most large roses for sale in bouquets in Australia are flown in weekly from Colombia ! These rainbow roses are made by splitting the stems and placing each part into…

  • Scientist Spotlight – Moana Simpson

    Scientist Spotlight – Moana Simpson

    This is my second interview for my Scientific Reasoning feature, designed to give us some insight into the lives of some of today’s scientists. The first interview can be found here – you will notice that many of the questions are the same – I wanted a fairly even playing field, so we can get a…

  • Image Reboot #3

    Welcome again to Image Reboot, a joint feature between Lucile (bridging lacunas) and myself (musings of a frequent flying scientist). Lucile asked me if I would write a monthly feature outlining what I’ve learnt about editing my photographs which I was honoured to do. I use LightRoom 5, I need to upgrade to version 6…

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