Recently, I spent three weeks houseminding at Sydney’s Cremorne Point a 15 minute ferry ride from Circular Quay and all the magnificence of Sydney Harbour…the Bridge, Opera House and its stunning natural wonders. Of course, I had to carpe diem and seized the day and I chuffed back and forth across the harbour onboard Sydney’s iconic ferry network and with all journeys coming and going out of Circular Quay, I had plenty of opportunities for exploring through the lens.
Walking around Circular Quay near the historic Rocks precinct, I first came across the Overseas Passenger Terminal when we were houseminding in January. The huge glass doors and rows of windows form a fabulous and intriguing reflective surface reconstructing our famous icons and their surrounds in multilayers and intriguing ways which I intend to keep exploring and maybe just maybe even getting there in time to explore a sunrise perspective although being more of a sunset sort it’s probably unlikely.
As you may be aware, I sort of wandered away from my blog a few months ago. To be honest, I’m not really sure how and why I fell off the wagon. I had a serious setback with my lungs and have been experiencing a serious shortness of breath. I’ve been out exercising and had infusions of rituximab and I’m now feeling a lot better for me and after doing two posts in two days hoping to keep my writing up.
As you can see, there was much to reflect upon!
This has been another contribution to Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion at No Facilities. As he says, Thursday Doors is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
Best wishes,
Rowena
Beyond the Flow 
I love reflections, Rowena and you have some wonderful photos in this collection. I hope you continue to feel better.
What exquisite reflections of the Sydney Harbour. Hoping to see more posts from you as you begin to feel better.
I can never resist reflections and your trips had some of the best.
Welcome back, there’s nothing wrong with taking a break or not having a blogging routine. It’s not school or work so we bloggers can do what we like and it’s always good to catch up with a blogger we haven’t seen for a while.
Hope you keep recovering
Thanks so much, Geoff. Great to hear from you. I tried touching base while I was houseminding in Sydney and was on a laptop and didn’t have my WordPress login details and even that was a few weeks ago. Time just seems to fly faster than usual atm. Hope you’re keeping well.
Best wishes,
Ro
A fine set of modern doors.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for the encouragement. It is great to catch up with people again and be more myself.
Thank you so much, Monika. I’ve delivered a few more this week including a review of the Barbie Movie. Have you seen it? Not a perfect or one of my favourite movies but something i think people should see as part of their “education”. I also love all the hype and ambiance around the film and people getting dressed up and having fun.
I’ll wait until Barbie the Movie comes out on cable. Mattel is not the kind of company I can through money at although I’ve heard good things about and have been told it promotes positive messages about women. When the company starts hiring more women, then I might change my mind. I always despised the whole excessive consumption hysteria surrounding each new occupation/house/bar, etc. They’re worse than Apple and all their various phones/products. LOL
Barbie certainly lives the high life and generates an awful lot of plastic waste not to mention promoting the perfect body, hair, life etc. That does get criticised in the movie and it’s not all ra ra Barbie. However, I would love to look like Margot Robbie and she looked amazing in the outfits and it was very easy to get all caught up in that and her pink car was exceptionally cute too.
Meanwhile back at home, I’ve been working pretty hard to sort our house out since returning from houseminding in Sydney. It’s a massive job but as space opens up I do feel lighter and can think a bit more clearly. Wanting to be able to have friends over.
Hope you are going well.
Best wishes,
Rowena
I read a paper some yours ago by Notre Dame University in the United State, which , in some ways, gave an explanation on why we forget something when we move from one room to another. The doors act as portal clearing our mind for the new information that the other room may provide. Interesting…
That’s fascinating, Edgar. That’s a good argument for removing internal doors from their hinges to save us from walking round and round in blind circles.