Thinking about the universe and all that..

Posted on March 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dark energy, Dark matter, Digital drawing, Just an idea, Life, Space, Thinking, Universe, WorldLeave a comment

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I was sitting thinking about dark matter and dark energy today as you do. I’m not sure exactly what they are, but scientists are trying to find out.

To explain, normal matter only takes up a small percentage of the amount of matter in the universe. The rest could be ‘dark matter’ which cannot be measured by normal scientific measures. Also there is dark energy. A type of energy that is repulsive. The universe is expanding and this dark energy is apparently speeding that process up.

Then I thought about the idea that there may be more than one universe. The multiverse. In some theories each decision we make could create a new universe. But we can only see the one we are in? My mind started to boggle. Maybe the dark matter could be from the universes we can’t see, and the dark energy from the creation of each new universe’s.

This is the trouble with speculation, I don’t know whether any of this makes any sense. But I like thinking, and if it takes my mind off the world at the moment, then maybe it’s a good thing.

How did we get here?

Posted on March 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Disease, Environment, Illness, Internet, Life, Pandemic, Time, Virus, World2 Comments

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A few weeks ago no one had heard of Corona Virus. Now the world is panicking. From an illness that started in the East, it has spread across the world. At one stage we were told it was less harmful than seasonal flu. Now people are self isolating. The problem is that there is no immunity in the population to it. It’s new, so humans haven’t had the chance to get used to it. Vaccines will be created, but that takes time. They have to be tested before they can be used safely. Now governments are setting limits to how many people can meet, shutting down sports events, and stocks and shares are dropping in value. Its as if the world has gone mad. We’ve watched too many zombie movies and people are trying to make sense of what’s going on. Hopefully things will improve soon.

Tree trunks

Posted on March 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Fun, Funny, Humour, Life, Nature, Photo, Poem, Poetry, TreeLeave a comment

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He has tree trunk legs,

Tree trunk knees,

There is a nest

Of tree trunk bees.

He has tree trunk arms,

And tree trunk ears,

Made of wood

He has a tree trunk soul.

The leaves have fallen,

From his branching head,

The winter comes,

And he looks dead.

But when sap arises,

Come the spring,

He’ll be renewed

And start again.

Glass hanging

Posted on March 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angela Ashton, Art, Colour, Design, Fused glass, Glass artist, Hanging panel, WorkshopLeave a comment

I would like to do some more glass art. This hanging piece was made last year. It’s made from fused glass. I would like to find a better place to hang it, so that more light can shine through. I’m also not quite happy with the yellow in it. It slight clashes with the other colours. It’s made with lengths of glass placed horizontally and vertically. It is almost like a plaid pattern.

Fused glass class with Angela Ashton, glass artist. Now based at South Sheilds.

Cat in a box

Posted on March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Boxes, Cat, Fun, Keeping warm, Life, Oven, Sleeping, Tummy rubLeave a comment

I have a cat that loves boxes. Currently he’s sleeping in two that I’ve put together and put on top of the oven because it’s warm there. He looks so happy and cute. He can’t resist curling up inside.

Can you see he’s smiling? I think that cars eyes show you emotion. As he is happy his eyes are slightly closed. If I slowly close my eyes when I look at him he does the same thing. Staring at cats is not good, they tend to feel it is aggression. But once you know them they don’t mind as much.

Stare at a cat and it will probably walk away, but if you look somewhere else, away from it, then it might even jump up on your lap. That’s why they pay more attention to eople who don’t like them, they are looking away and the cat sees it as non aggressive, passive, behaviour.

Blue glass

Posted on March 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blur, Ceramic, Colour, Design, Glass, Pattern, Photo, Two years agoLeave a comment

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I found this photo of when I’d has the bathroom decorated. I love the colour of the blue glass. Now it’s full of ferns and my glass and ceramic collection is well hidden. I think the bulbous white ceramic is the side of a vase. X

Tree pillar

Posted on March 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Contrast, Design, Duplicated, Fun, Multiplied, Pattern, PhotoLeave a comment

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Went down the surreal route (root) with this photo a couple of years ago. This tree ‘pillar’ looks like its holding up a green roof.

Getting an image like this is based on placement of the object in the original picture. If you place a strong pattern in one corner, or in the middle, with interesting contrast or colours, you can multiply it and create something etherial. I like to think this could be a home for elves or fairie folk. Mad, but interesting.

Panic buying

Posted on March 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Environment, In our time, Life, Loo roll, Mad, Self isolate, Shopping, Shortages, Toilet roll, Virus8 Comments

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You know when the world has gone mad when all the toilet paper has gone off the shelves in the supermarket and you have to DRAW a loo roll.

And yet the question is WHY? The virus that is going round makes you have a temperature and a dry cough, followed by possible pneumonia and heart and liver problems in severe cases. There is no detail of upset stomachs? I was listening to the radio and they were saying it’s just the human psyche, big packets of toilet roll look important, so people buy them. It’s the siege mentality, if you are going to have to ‘self isolate’ it is important to have enough food and supplies in to last for a couple of weeks. But, sometimes we humans go a bit mad. One truck at the Blackwall tunnel (which runs under the Thames) was stopped by the highways department because it was overloaded. When they opened it up it was crammed with toilet paper. The driver got a £300 fine.

Photo manipulation

Posted on March 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Adam and God, Cat, Doodle, Fun, Hand, Layout app, Life, Manipulation, Photo, Playing, SniffLeave a comment

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The finger and the nose never touched. This is two photos, joined together, then I’ve drawn over the background and blurred it. I got my hubby to hold his hand out, a bit like in the painting of Adam and God’s hands in the Sistine Chapel, then I got my cat to sniff my hand, but I specifically wanted a male hand, so I’ve cropped the two together. I’ve blurred the background to look like clouds (and hide the messy background). I’m just wondering now if it’s gone a bit ‘ET phone home’?

The pale blue is where I drew a line. I tried to flood fill the background, but it didn’t work well. Anyway it’s almost 3.30am, so enough experimenting. Goodnight all.

Amaryllis

Posted on March 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amaryllis, Bulbs, Feeding, Flowers, Gardening, Indoor plants, Leaves, pots, Red, WateringLeave a comment

IMG_20200302_112003_579_optimized It’s flowered. My Amaryllis is in flower. Bright red trumpets. Three big flowers.

There are two other plants, they have leaves, but no flowers. I hope they might still send up long stems with buds. I’m watering them, but it might not be till next year, then perhaps they will flower. Amaryllis like to be tightly packed into their pots, and so I don’t re-pot them until they have started to outgrow their pots. The one that is flowering is over ten years old. It was a Christmas present from my mother. It has a second bulb growing next to it, and when that gets large enough I may try and dislodge it and grow it in a new pot.

I do think they have possibly been overfed this year. When I have fed my orchids I have given any spare water with food in it, to the amaryllis plants. Usually I don’t bother to feed them. They do seem to have put on a lot of leaves so perhaps that is why they are not flowering as well as normal.

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