Missing fog

Posted on October 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged above, Black and white, Blurred, Cloud, Flat, Fog, Hanley Park, Life, Memory, Monochrome, must, ViewLeave a comment

No not missing in the fog, just missing fog. I lived in flat many years ago and we were half way up a tower block. I remember looking out of the kitchen window and the clouds were below me. When I walked outside I was in fog. Cold and grey, but it made the world interesting and indistinct. Sometimes driving home at night we would encounter fog patches or banks of fog. Driving in and out of them made me very cautious. There were stories of people following the rear lights of cars into people’s drives because they hadn’t realised that the car had turned off the road and they had been following to find their way around.

These days we don’t seem to get much. Is the air dryer so mist does not form? Is the humidity of the air too low? I miss the fog

I took the photo in Hanley Park a few years ago. I really like the wonderful blurred areas of part of it, unfocused and softened. I like the way it removed colour, making the image monochrome. I miss fog…

View

Posted on October 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Countryside, Dreaming, House, Industry, Living, my home, reflecting, Sea, View, WindowLeave a comment

Looking out of our house, I can see gardens on the side and rear of the house, but a grey factory building in front. I wish we had a view of the sea or countryside. The road in front of our house is on a steep hill, and quite often cars roar up and down it, ambulances rush by with sirens blaring, or motorbikes speed up, exhausts popping and banging. The hill is one of the steepest in the area and seems sometimes to be a racetrack! Oh to see a yatch in the distance, sails catching the rising or setting sun. That would be magical.

Lakeside

Posted on September 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Calm, glass balcony, Lake, lakeside, Nature, Photo, Reeds, rushes, View, Westport lakeLeave a comment

The plants are turning red in places, golds too. The rushes by the lake have dark heads. We are just starting to head into autumn. I took a photo through the glass on the balcony of Westport Lake Cafe. The cafe is a few meters above the lake. It is curved wood like a boat standing on massive metal legs. It is built into a slope because of the way the land falls away. The entrance is at ground level on the side opposite the lake. There is a white curve in the just above and to the right of the middle of the photo. That’s a reflection. Not sure what caused it.

Two galaxies

Posted on September 14, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, Beautiful, fantastic, Galaxies, Hubble, incredible, Nasa, Stars, ViewLeave a comment

Two galaxies in line of sight. Taken by the hubble space telescope. They are not colliding but are completely separate, (like the moon going in front of the sun).

Imagine how big the view of one galaxy would be from the other one? If we were on a planet there half the sky would be dazzling and full of stars, the other half facing the dark of space. It could be amazing!

Stairs

Posted on September 4, 2022September 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, 199 steps, Bay, Bram Stoker, Dracula, harbour, History, Life, North Yorkshire, Steps, View, Whitby, Whitby AbbeyLeave a comment

Look up Whitby steps on the Internet and you find out there are 199 steps from the town up to Whitby Abbey at the top. Dracula by Bram Stoker was set there. The town has many tourists visiting because of this. There is also a history of jewellery making in the town because it is the home of Whitby Jet. This is a black, fossilised substance that was originally ancient monkey puzzle trees. The steps or stairs offer a spectacular view down over the harbour and bay.

For #bandofsketchers prompt today ‘stairs’

Pears on the tree

Posted on August 18, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Crop, Fruit, fruit tree, Gardening, happy nature, Pear tree, Pears, Tree, View, WindowLeave a comment

View out of a side window, heavy with pears the branches are bending down on our pear tree. The trunk is propped up because its gone over to about a forty five degree angle partly caused by strong winds and partly just from the weight of pears on the branches. This from a tree bought from Woolworths twenty five years ago as a small sapling. Every year I marvel at the productivity of the plant. And looking out the window at them? Makes me proud of what you can do if you let nature take over.

Short or long sighted?

Posted on August 12, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eyes, Flat, Glasses, interesting fact, long sighted, Looking, Seeing, short sighted, View2 Comments

How can you tell whether someone is short or long sighted? Look into their eyes.. Short sighted peoples eyes look smaller behind their glasses. Long sighted people appear to have larger eyes than normal… If you watch a film and the star of it is wearing glasses you can tell if they need them. Sometimes they wear glasses with a flat piece of glass in them, you can see a ‘flat’ reflection if the light hits them. You can tell they are only wearing glasses for effect rather than any real need.

Cornwall in the distance

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beach, Bovisand Bay, Cornwall, Devon, Landscape, People, Plymouth, Rain, Thinking, thunder storms, ViewLeave a comment

Across from Plymouth Sound in Devon sits the County of Cornwall. This is the view from Bovisand Bay. I love the South West of England. I would live there if I could afford it instead of the occasional visits we make every few years. I think it’s the attraction of the sea. We stayed in a caravan site near this bay on summer and saw a massive thunderstorm. The lightning was striking the surface of the water and we could look across the bay and see it hitting the Cornish side. It was like a spectacular light show.

Talking about thunder and lightning, we might be getting thundery showers on Wednesday or Thursday if the weather forecast is correct. I hope we get a decent amount of rain. Not the thing for a beach holiday, but we certainly need some water on the land.

Sunset

Posted on July 18, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Clouds, Evening, Pareidolia, Penkhull, Photo, Shadows, Sky, Sunset, View, WomanLeave a comment

I tried to take a photo earlier on of a real sunburst breaking through the clouds behind our house. But for some reason it didn’t save. So when I came out of choir practice I was pleased to see this.

As usual my pareidolia kicked in. I think I can see a woman floating through the sky. One arm extended, a crown or a cake suspended above it. There are shadows cast by one lot of clouds onto the ones above them, and I love the colours, the dusky pinks and purples especially.

Floating in the sea or sky?

Posted on July 13, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bovisand, Cornwall, Devon, Floating, Landscape, Life, Photo, Sea, Seaside, ships, Sky, Travel, View, Visit, WaterLeave a comment

It was a grey, overcast day at Bovisand yesterday. The port of Plymouth off to the right of this photo was busy. There is a breakwater to protect the harbour and make the inlet safe as ships and boats travel up to the Tamar and Plym Rivers among others that flow into the sea here. But because of the grey light and indistinct sea surface, some of the ships seemed to be floating in the sky! In the distance is the coast of Cornwall. The Tamar river is on the boundary between England’s two most westerly counties. Warm and welcoming in the summer. It can be cold and wet, blustery and stormy at all times of the year. But a very beautiful place to visit.

Mallaband-Brown

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