Cats are odd

Posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Indoor cats, Outdoor cat, Photo, Playing, Relaxed, socks, Tuxedo cat4 Comments

My cats have decided to play with my socks instead of the toys I get for them. They don’t use the balls that light up, or the striped mouse, or an octopus with feathers (don’t ask). No it’s socks, socks, socks and the occasional underpants! Mostly they play a bit and then sit on them… Keeping their paws warm no doubt.

This is the two boys, one indoor, the other outdoor, although really they are both now. Both are friendly with each other and our girl cat. They get on quite well and don’t fight, there is the occasional paw raised, but if I tell them off they stop. I do love them.

When I clear photos

Posted on July 6, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged deleted, files, Learning, Paper, Photo, Pictures, rearrange, reorganised, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

The remaining ones mix up. January’s in July’s, March’s in May’s. I find it hard to find pictures I want to use for college or for my blog. Hence this odd little photo, it came from a while ago and yet it is in recent images? I don’t know how to get them back in order. I think the old ones are filling in the spaces of the photos I have deleted.

So I have to put up with it. It does mean that I occasionally rediscover an image that I really like, and as I intend to keep on sharing images as I blog you will see what I find!

Wet!

Posted on July 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climate change, Environment, heavy shower, Life, Nature, Photo, Rain, Torrential rain, wetter than before2 Comments

Rain rain go away come again another day, or go to where its needed on the West Coast of the United States and Canada. I don’t think I’ll be walking far this afternoon. Watching the tour de France on the TV… And it’s raining heavily there too.

Thunderstorms are forecast here later in the day.

It’s amazing how much heavier rain seems these days, I remember rain in the past being relatively light compared with this! We live on a hill but the road looked like a river a few minutes ago (OK that’s overdoing it, a small stream). Off to get a towel to dry off!

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…

Another feather

Posted on July 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Birds, Environment, Feathers, Grey, Nature, Photo, Thinking, Walking2 Comments

Once you see something it’s hard not to see it. You ‘get your eye in’. I’ve recently seen a few different ones on various walks and I can’t resist taking photos of them. This could be a duck or a pigeon feather? I don’t know. I remember learning how feathers have thin strands with little hooks on them so when a bird preens it’s feathers the hooks can sort of zip the feathers up and hold the strands of the feathers together? I don’t know exactly how it works. I guess I should look it up on line or find a book with details in it. It is fascinating to think about the mechanics of birds wings.

Five years ago today

Posted on July 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Etruria Industrial museum, July, Photo, Rainbow, storm clouds, Trent and mersey canal2 Comments

I don’t know what I was doing but I know where I was. At Etruria Flint Mill by the Trent and Mersey canal. How do I know? This picture came up on my phone memories. I love the rainbow flies across the sky with one brilliant end behind the chimney. It looks like a multicoloured comet. I Ts interesting how the area of cloud under rainbows looks paler than the area above. It must be part of the optics of rain storms.

Stuck on Sudoku

Posted on June 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1-9, adding up, frustration, Life, Maths, Photo, soduku3 Comments

I’m stuck, I can’t think, it’s been a couple of years since I did one of these and I’ve forgotten how! I know squares have 1-9, lines have 1-9 but I can’t see the patterns anymore. Just spent an hour on this and only done a third…. Onwards….

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!

Black cat

Posted on June 30, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Black cat, Cat, Life, Lucky cat, Photo, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Sweet black cat

Nervous and shy

Stepped towards us

Then ran away

Black shadow in trees

Rush away now

Fast on your paws

Down the road you go

Quick and silent

Shiny and sleek

Now you go

Home you seek.

Copper beech tree

Posted on June 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Copper beech, Dawn, Photo, summer view, Tree, Trent Valley, View, WalkingLeave a comment

On our walk we saw a glorious copper beech tree. I think it’s only quite young but it is set on its own above the valley of the Trent. I’d love to live in the house on the other side of the road and have this magnificent tree to look at and must be lovely to look at as the sun rises behind it. I will have to get up early to get a shot of that.

Mallaband-Brown

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