What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?

I am absolutely a risk-averse, risk taker. I would never plan a big risk but am happy to allow risk to happen. I believe that creativity absolutely grows in an environment of risk and that firmly held planning is the antithesis of  a creative mind. My science, child rearing ,or health and safety head is a much less risk taking beast but even those worlds benefit sometimes from happy accidents.

To answer the question, I have no idea how big a risk I would like to take, maybe I already did it or maybe that choice is in the future.

On an illustrative note the photos accompanying this blog were taken in a friend/ bobbers/ neighbours garden. I have learned to my cost that taking a risk with planting in our yard does not work. What is needed is acute observation of what survives in close-by gardens as our locality is very much a micro climate. I spotted this rose while doing a tour of my friend’s garden.

Her yard is east-facing and mine is west but for a rose this beautiful in October I feel the risk is worth it.

One last little risk, throw the rose picture into a photo editing app that has a random algorithm and see what happens.