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?

Hubby colouring

Posted on October 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Adult colouring books, Art, Drawing, Flow, Fun, Hubby, Sketching, Sky, Sunset, TimeLeave a comment

He’s enjoying colouring in some pictures, relaxing, his style is abstract. Following the lines or adding extra lines, not using regular colours.

He does it his way, and he gets a lot out of it. Getting that “feeling of flow” people talk about. It’s good seeing him drawing and colouring. There is such a large selection of adult colouring books out there. Worth having a go. I like his use of colours.

Autumn sky

Posted on September 20, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, High pressure, Life, officially autumn, Red sky, September, Sky, Sunset, WeatherLeave a comment

The nights are ‘drawing in’, Autumn (fall) starts officially on Wednesday this week. The weather is set to get colder. There will be a change to it, mist and fogs are due, rain and wind, even some storms.

This photo was taken a few nights ago, high pressure over the UK and a red sky in the evening indicating settled warm weather.

Even if we had long term weather forecasts they are never that accurate here in the UK. The air over us is unstable, affected by the ocean, the Arctic, weather over Europe and coming in from the East over Russia. If you want interesting, rapidly changing weather come to the UK.

Sun pillar?

Posted on August 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Penkhull, Photo, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Sun pillar, Sunset, the CroftLeave a comment

I don’t know if you can see on this photo, but there is a slight line of light in the centre of this picture. It’s not bright, but I think it was a ‘sun pillar’. I’ve seen a good one several years ago down in Devon. It’s something to do with sunlight shining up and hitting the clouds. Anyway this was on our walk around the Croft this evening. Stoke-on-Trent about 8.30pm.

Another papercut

Posted on August 25, 2021August 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, B arts, Craft, Design, Flow, Fun, Happy, Paper cutting, Sunset, time consumingLeave a comment

I think this came out quite well. I started with straight lines then added the curves. It’s meant to be a bit asymmetric. I think it has a 1930’s feel? I could imagine it as a stencil. It needs some tissue paper behind it, perhaps red or orange. The craft knife was so sharp it actually cut slivers of plastic off the ruler. A couple more to do but I’ve really enjoyed learning a new skill.

Keele Hall silhouette

Posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cool evening, Crescent moon, Keele Hall, Keele University, Sky, Sunset, WalkingLeave a comment

Moving away from meteors, here are a couple more photos from this evenings walk. Showing Keele Hall and a very tiny thin crescent moon peeping out from behind the branches of an ancient tree on the estate. It relaxed me seeing such a lovely fading sunset. We had been blinded by the westerning sun dropping low on the horizon earlier so it was good that it had set for this photo.

Evening stroll

Posted on August 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged evening stroll, Keele University, Keele Woods, Staffordshire, Sunset, uneven paths, WalkingLeave a comment

This evening we had a stroll round Keele Woods. Situated being Keele Hall, part of Keele University in Staffordshire. The paths are rough in places and meander down by three old fishing pools. I’m not sure about who is allowed to fish if at all. It was getting dark as we walked back up the hill to the hall. Nice walk.

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.

Tonights walk

Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Car, Dark, Etruria, Ford consul, Pub, Sunset, Trent and mersey canal, Walking2 Comments

A car at one end and a sunset at the other!

Walked about 14000 steps. We were walking along the Trent and Mersey canal to a pub at Etruria and back. We were slightly late setting off to come back home and it was getting very dark so we came off the canal and went along a main road. Still it was a good walk, we had a small meal, so overall it was enjoyable. X

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Sunset