Railway Bridge:

Wispy plant:

Bee:

Inside of a disused warehouse:

Sookie is alive. She’s a colony of yeast and lactobaccilus and lives in my fridge. She feeds on flour and looks a bit like frothy pancake batter. I made her over the last few days and today I used her to bake some bread. I found these instructions by S. John Ross very helpful. I pretty much followed them to the letter, although I used granary flour for today’s loaf.

And now I have bread:

The crust is torn along the side closest to the camera due to unexpectedly intense oven-spring (the loaf expanding in the oven as it cooks), even though I slashed the top. This is how the sliced surface looks:

Bread seems kind of magical to me. You start out with these basic substances — flour, water, oil, salt and sugar — and end up with these complex flavours and textures. There’s something amazingly satisfying about making something like this out of such simple ingredients.