Setting Moon

Posted on May 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Crescent moon, Earth, Eclipse, Moon, Orbit, position of the moon, position of the sun, Sky, Sun, Time, WorldLeave a comment

Seen a couple of nights ago, a blurry setting Moon, chasing the Sun round the sky.

You can tell what angle the Moon is to the Sun because of the angle of the curve on the sunlit side. As the Moon waxes and wanes the position of the Sun can be worked out, full Moon=the Sun is on the other side of the Earth, a sliver of Moon, the Moon is in between the Earth and the Sun. Eclipse? If the Moon Eclipses the Sun it is directly between the other two bodies. If the Moon turns bright red its the Earth getting between the Moon and Sun, its only really then that you can see the curvature of the Moons surface, whichis usually so reflective that it looks bright and flat.

I guess this is the most number of times I’ve written ‘”Moon” in a blog!

Too many buttons?

Posted on May 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buttons, classic editor?, Editing, Layout, Learning, positioning text, Time, too many options, Understanding?, WordPress6 Comments

What are they all for WordPress? I know you are holding some training sessions. But I don’t have time for them. I don’t need an immersive experience, I want to point and press!

I’m still coming to terms with the loss of the classic editor and all I do now is press enter and start another block. The one thing I do like is more control over image sizes, but how do I set whether an image is right, left or centre of the page…?

I never learnt type setting, I don’t know what to do when I can type columns? I’m interested in getting my thoughts out, not how to place them on a page. Yes it might look scrappy, but I’m not fussed….

Gate house

Posted on May 15, 2021May 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, cemetery, Clematis, Death, Life, Photo, Rain, Sad, somber, TimeLeave a comment

View of the gatehouse of the cemetery with masses of Clematis Montana? growing up and around trees in the grounds. Splendid gates and brick pillars add to the impression of a proud building. I enjoyed walking through the cemetery tonight, in a gentle rain. The somber clouds echoing the place.

I like the subtle colours in this photo, mostly muted except for the lime greens of some of the newly grown leaves, sulphurous and alive, balancing out the pinks, greys and browns. It had just stopped raining (we had been sheltering under a tree when I took this photo). I dont know what I think of buildings in cemeteries, could anyone acyually live there or is it offices? and who locks up the gates at night- is there an official gate keeper?

Blue woman…

Posted on May 11, 2021May 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged blue woman, Creative writing, dramatic, Figure, Ghostly, Morning, Short story, Sleep, Spooky, Time, Very short story, Waking3 Comments

He woke up and saw the figure of a blue woman hovering in the bedroom. She was standing, but as he looked down to the side of the bed her feet were a couple of inches above the floor.

She had no facial features, like a mannequins dummy, blank faced, not even eyes. No mouth, no sound. He felt, somehow though, that she was looking at him? The angle of her head, tipped down and intent on where he lay. He noticed motes of dust in the sunbeam shining through the window. He could see them floating beyond the figure. It was dissolving as he watched.

Finally it faded, gradually, slowly, melting into nothing. No explanation, no reason, gone. All he felt was a wash of calm, not fear, and relieved that she was gone.

Remembered scary tree

Posted on April 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Drawing, faded memories, History, Life, Memory, Sketching, Spooky, Time, TreeLeave a comment

Oh I used to run past this tree. I was convinced as a child that it was inhabited by a ghost. As part of this terms college work we had to remember some landscape from our childhood and this was what I thought of.

I’ve probably missed out trees and I can’t remember if there were houses in the background. But it will remain with me forever!

Tree again

Posted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gardening, Leaves, Penkhull, Photo, seasons, Spring, Sunshine, Time, Tree, View, YearLeave a comment

I keep coming back to this tree as it spreads its branches over the view from Penkhull. I have watched it in leaf, with dying leaves, bare and now in bud. It makes me realise how fast a year can pass. The same with gardening, the seasons and plants come and go. And I’m a year older and no wiser….

Cat looks both ways?

Posted on April 8, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cat doorstop, Distance, Layout app, nine lives, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Time, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Look forward

Look back?

Where did my nine lives go?

An expanse of time

Melted into history.

Only this life left.

Hold tight.

Don’t let it go.

Wide eyed

Staring into the distance.

Unsure of what to be.

Poppy seeds

Posted on April 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Frost, Fun, Gardening, Green, Growing, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Seeds, Spring, TimeLeave a comment

Here we go!

Time to sow!

Flowers and veg

A new hedge?

Plant with love

Rain from above

Fresh green shoot

Of leaves that sprout.

Growing happily now?

If we don’t have some snow!

Hubby’s Motorbike Stolen

Posted on March 31, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angry, Early morning, Hubby, Insurance, Life, Sad, stolen motorbike, theft, Time, Tired, waiting to hear4 Comments

Hubby’s Motor scooter was stolen early this morning. We went to bed late after watching a film. Then about five am someone started hammering on our front door. Hubby shouted he was calling the police, and the man outside said he was the police!

He said they had just seen it being ridden round Stoke and that it had been stolen. Hubby checked the gate and the padlock and hasp had been broken and the motorbike / scooter was gone.

They went off and we decided to drive round to see if we could find anything. What we did find was a large covered mobility scooter in the alleyway by our garden. It had been damaged where someone had broken through its faring to hot wire? The motor. I guess they must have done the same with ours and ridden off. On it. We reported it to the insurers, we will see what happens.

Moonish

Posted on March 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bad photo, Earth, Full moon, Glow, lunatic, Moon, Old songs, Planet, rotation, Time, WolvesLeave a comment

Full moon through a dirty window. It’s blueish hue reminds me of those old songs, moon spoon, June, tunes of the past.

A glowing cold ball in the sky. Full now, but no longer linked to lunatics and howling wolves. Perhaps the fluorescent glow from sodium lights has drowned out its flooding influence.

But the tides still turn under its gravity, pulled upwards, the sea rises with the moon above it, while on the opposite side of the Earth the sea is held less firmly and slacken into another bulge. That is why there are two high tides and low tides a day.

And the Moon is tidally locked with Earth, so one side always faces us now. The Moon may be the result of a cataclysmic impact when a small planet struck Earth a glancing blow and lifted matter from Earth into the sky. The matter from the collision coalesced into the Moon and its orbit around Earth began. Now it is gradually moving away, a few centimeters a year. As it orbits Earth it is gradually slowing our spin. We used to make one rotation of the planet in around Twenty three hours. Now we have slowed to twenty four.

Moon. So much to learn.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time