Sunsetting

Posted on October 17, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aging, Busy, Decisions, Health, Life, Memory, Plans, Sky, Sunset, Time, View, Work4 Comments

Oh my word, I have been so busy, and tired, this last week.

Days are getting shorter, but I’ve had to cram lots into them. I’ve got a gardener in to cut back the ivy that was getting up onto my roof. I’ve had treatment on my foot, which has had an infection for several weeks. I’ve had tests on my thyroid and I’m feeling sad because it’s the anniversary of several sad occasions.

Consequently I have spent a lot of time contemplating life and what I can do to improve things. I haven’t made a plan, and I don’t see my life sunsetting, but I have to learn what I can continue to do and what I might have to give up.

Anyway, I will try and get back here more often.

Eclipse drawing

Posted on August 17, 2026August 18, 2026 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged artistic, ArtRage app, Doodle, Eclipse drawing, Life, Moon, Sketching, Sun, Sunset1 Comment

Tried to do a sketch of the partial eclipse using Artrage app. It’s using digital pens and tools which replicate things like soft pastels or brush marks.

The image is not based on a real picture, but is more of a doodle. X

Red

Posted on August 3, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Bag, Berries, Blood, brush, Colours, Flowers, Life, Poem, Poetry, Red, shades, Sunset, TonesLeave a comment

Red flower

Red bag

Red brush

Red blood,

Red paint

Shades and tones

Scarlet poppy

Crimson lake

Sunset cerise

Carmine rose

Ruby jewel

Cherry lipstick…

So vibrant

Blushes and berries

Heat is rising,

Bring me Green…

Where did this come from?

Posted on November 2, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Light, Memories, opposite side of the sky, Photo, prism, Rain, Rainbow, Sunset, Time, WhatsAppLeave a comment

WhatsApp photo of a rainbow a friend sent me. For some reason it appeared in my gallery. I get all sorts of photos from friends and I wouldn’t normally share them, but this is Yorkshire terraced house rooves with a rainbow above them. I like the sunset. You can just see an arc of colour in the sky.

The rainbow is above the houses, and the fronts of them are catching the sunlight. It shows how the sun must always be on the opposite side of the sky to a rainbow. The prisms of the rain drops scattering the light.

When I was younger I saw a rainbow coming down to the ground in front of me. It was about 50 yards away. As I walked towards it, it moved away at walking pace. Then I started to jog and it moved away at the same pace as I was travelling.

It was fascinating, and it stayed in my memory, so everytime I see these beautiful light shows I appreciate it.

This evenings sky

Posted on September 22, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colours, Glowing, Life, Memory, Orange, Pink, Purple, Silhouette, Sunset, Yellow2 Comments

The sky was so clear tonight, the shades and colours were so subtle. Blue, then purple, pink, orange and yellow. The trees silhouetted against the light. It was glowing and I could really see the colours for a change. I realise how much my sight has improved with every new vista. I’m hoping it continues and nothing goes wrong. It was glorious.

I see a dragon

Posted on July 20, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Colours, Hill, Life, Memory, Pareidolia, Red, shadow, Sunny, Sunset, Time, topLeave a comment

That old Pareidolia kicking in again.

The dragons head upper left, then a thin neck and body, looking a bit like a viking boat. Finally a great sail of a wing catching the glow from the setting sun.

This was last Monday and it lingered on my phone until I found it today.

I don’t see sunsets very often because I’m on the wrong side of the hill. This was at the top of our hill and there are still buildings and trees in the way and as the sun drifts northwest as it sets in the summer there is more vegetation in the way.

Don’t look at the sun!

Posted on June 12, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bright, Burning, Danger, Infra red, Light, Orange, Pink, Red, Sketching, Sun, Sunset, Ultra violetLeave a comment

A couple of days ago I was driving home and came round a bend to see a bright red sun on the horizon. For a second I stared at it then realised it was dangerous and looked away. But it was slightly too late. Now when I look I can see a slight bright patch where my eyes had wandered across the view. It’s faded a bit so I guess I haven’t done permanent damage but I will try not to do that again!

Keeping warm

Posted on March 15, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bills, Central heating, Chilly, Cold, frosty, Poem, Poetry, seasons, Spring, Sunset, Survival, WinterLeave a comment

Feeling cold.

It’s warming up soon

But had the heating on

Too much.

Bills due soon

Too soon

Yeah well

You have to survive

Don’t you?

Winter to Spring

Frosty sunsets

Will turn mild.

Moonlight memories

Posted on March 13, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Apollo, Blood moon, Earth, Eclipse, Moonlight, Reading, Sun, Sunset, Time, Window ledgeLeave a comment

The Moon will be eclipsed by the Earth tomorrow morning and there will be a blood (red) moon due. That means that as the Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon the light rays from the Sun are refracted by Earth’s atmosphere. Blue light is scattered more but red light continues towards the Moon and illuminates it. (in a similar way that at sunset the sky can turn red).

Moonlight has been important in my life, from the Moon landings from 1969 and seeing it in its various phases. I remember being in my bedroom sitting on my bedroom window ledge as a child and reading books by moonlight. I loved being able to read even though we had to turn the lights out. I used to enjoy it.

Sunset tonight

Posted on December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bright, Clouds, Colours, Orange, Photograph, Silhouette, Sky, Sunset, View, YellowLeave a comment

I saw that the sunset was developing from my side of the hill, but we are blocked from sunsets by that hill. So I jumped in the car and took some photos on the other side. This was one of the best, penkhull, England. 14.12.24. I think one cloud looks like a shark!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Sunset