Michelle Bailat-Jones
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Michelle Bailat-Jones
@mbailatj.bsky.social
novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin.
www.michellebailatjones.com
Garden morning. A half-hour of cold, winter sun. The pumpkin leaves, like curled paper now, hang from the homemade summer trellis that will collapse as soon as we get snow.
December 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Recent loot
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Everyone at the station can see their breath, everyone keeps their hands in their pockets, the man who lives beside the station is whistling in his garden, whistling and crunching his boots across the frost.
December 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Dawn walks in the very quiet
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Spot the swan in this 1953 untitled Laure Pigeon? And her face is always somewhere, too
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
7am view from the coffee cup: nautical twilight and quite spindley, -1° but the rain has stopped
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Window gazing, last night's long walk around a city
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Intrepid train buddy (or sleepy, as is usually the case)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Today's company on the fainting couch
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Quite/quiet wintery ce matin
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
More texture....
new entry for the catalogue of tiny pleasing things
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Bookish goodness on my walk to a bakery yesterday
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Wisteria, coffee cup, silence, book
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The autumn Friday morning quiets are about to start, Orangina is practicing
August 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Today was 2200 meters high, included marmots and a very bright blue lake.
August 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Not only is Hilton Al's personal history "The Story Part" beautiful and thoughtful and moving, it is a perfect illustration of why we should never ever give creative writing to a statistical-word-order-machine. Language is our tool for explaining thought and wonder; we should fight to keep it ours.
July 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Went to a small Dorothea Lange exhibit tonight; nothing felt historical, but instead felt now and always.
July 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Folded and busy for today's entry for the catalogue of wingtips
July 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Bisous, with basil and petunias
July 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
En plein vitesse
July 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
délicate, for the catalogue of small brights
July 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Sous l'ombre, la petite terrasse au coin du jardin
July 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Texxxxxxturrrrre...
entries from the catalogue of shadows, catalogue of tiny pleasing things
July 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Sheltering from today's heat on a wall. Carries clouds in its wings. Today's entry for the #catalogueofwingtips
June 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The first dahlia of the year is perfect #smallbrights
June 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM