A short walk at last

Posted on November 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Breeze, Clouds, cold day, Dogs, Friendly, Photo, Steps, Sunset, Time, View, Walking6 Comments

Today, for the first time in about three months I walked around the top of our hill (I drove up as I’m still nervous of putting pressure on my calf muscles).

It still had a little uphill section at the end (we walked downhill at the start). But I managed OK. I’d decided to go out early, before the sun set, and the sky still had some colour in it when we got down to the area of school playing fields that spread down into the Trent Valley.

On the walk we saw two dog walkers, one with a French bulldog and a Staffordshire bull terrier, the other with two beautiful golden retrievers. Both pairs of dogs wanted a fuss so that delayed us getting to see the sunset. It was only a couple of thousand steps but as I had already walked into town and back I at least got my 5000 steps in. On a cold breezy day it was good to blow the cobwebs away at last.

Moon

Posted on November 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Daylight, History, Moon, neighbouring, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, SkyLeave a comment

Far away – spy

Daylight moon fly

Pale blue and white

Clouds billow out

Craters are hidden

Mares unbidden

Lie in bright sunlight

Lost in the day, bright

Sea of tranquility

We had ability

Moonlanding site

A spectacular flight.

Apollo was lord

Of our neighbouring world.

Cloudy

Posted on October 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged British summer time, Clouds, Greenwich mean time, Life, Light, Photo, Sunrise, Sunset3 Comments

Sun sets about 6pm now and dark clouds bordered by edges of creamy white. Soon the clocks will be going back and we will lose an hour of light in the afternoons. It’s then I start getting very sad, I don’t suffer from depression, but I just wish we could hold on to that extra hour. I’m not bothered about gaining an extra hour of light in the morning. There was an experiment in the 1970’s in Britain where we kept British Summer time in the winter. They found that there were less accidents involving children because if they were tired this was combated by them being able to see traffic with the lighter evenings. I’m sure there are statistics somewhere on the net that confirms this. For whatever reason the experiment was ended after three years and we reverted to Greenwich mean time in the winter and British Summer time in the summer.

Why go on about this? I think the British Summer time experiment saved energy while it was going on. Somehow less energy was used. Maybe they should think about it again?

The weather turns

Posted on September 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Clouds, Cold, Evening, Rain, September, Showers, Summer, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

Rain, then more rain, followed by sunshine and showers. More rain due. Mists and drizzle. Cold showers. Heavy showers travel up the country. From south to north, west to east. Scudding across the sky. Clouds caught on a strong wind. Billowing, blousy, heavy, dark grey. Moving faster than waking pace, shadows flit across the ground. Leaving puddles of shade on the scorched pavements. Dry September has become wet September. Summer has become Autumn. Growth to decay. Age after youth.

Perseid meteor

Posted on August 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 13 August 2021, Astronomy, Clouds, local midnight, Meteor shower, Meteors, Perseid, perseid meteor shower, Science, Sister, Sky, Speed, UKLeave a comment

It was about 11.40pm tonight in the UK. I was looking through my kitchen window looking west. I was ringing my sister to tell her the Perseid Meteor shower was due tonight, when I saw what I can only describe as a fireball flash by heading north west. Two seconds later, my sister who lives eighty miles away saw it too! It flew over her right shoulder and dissappeared. So it must have been travelling about 40 miles a second. Since then I’ve seen about four meteors (shooting stars). It’s clouded over now. But there should be about 150 an hour after local midnight! X

Croft at sunset

Posted on August 9, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Evening, Mackerel sky, Sculpture, Sunset, the Croft, Tree, Walking, WeatherLeave a comment

The Croft is a local piece of land the that was threatened with having houses built on it. But it is a green lung of the city, giving a recreation area for local people and for local wildlife.

The sky was covered in mackerel clouds indicating it might be raining tomorrow. I sometimes think the clouds look like a flock of sheep!

The fox is carved into the tree of a neighbouring garden. I did find out who the sculpture was done by. I woukd like one doing on a tree stump in my garden. X

Clouds

Posted on August 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Clouds, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, Sketching, Sunset2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was clouds. I went for a short walk this evening and saw a nice sunset so decided to draw it. This was done with felt pens. I didn’t have the right colours for it, so it’s more purple than the real colour.

I just found this draft, so I decided to publish it.

Sun setting

Posted on July 8, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Clouds, Light, Photo, Silhouette, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Sunset, Trees, Trentham Gardens, WalkingLeave a comment

Back at Trentham after a walk round the lake. I took this looking towards the low sun. It was hard to see the phone screen so it was a bit hit and miss what I would get.

I like the way the trees and clouds are silhouetted. There is a walkway with metal hoops to the right of the tree, various climbers cover parts of it including wisteria and roses. At the far end is a statue, but we came out one of the side entrances and walked down a grassy slope to look back at this.

Waiting for rain

Posted on July 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Ears, Evening, Mouse, Photo, Sky, Steep hill, Sunset, Walking, Weather, WingsLeave a comment

Tonights sunset. We walked up our steep hill then took a slightly longer route home. At the bottom of the road back to home I saw this sunset and cloudy sky lightening the sky that had been dark and moody all evening.

I’m looking for faces in the clouds but all I can see a profile of a mouse with large ears, it has its front paws lifted up and large wings on its back. I used to think I had no imagination…

Cloudy sunset

Posted on June 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, paynes grey, Photo, Pink, sandwiched, Sunset, ViewLeave a comment

The sky is gloomy, but salmon pink was seeping underneath it this evening, like a strawberry blancmange layer in a trifle. Deep green and paynes grey sandwich the pink. We avoided the rain as the wind was blowing away from us. I love walking on this side of the hill, we live on the shady side!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Clouds