Here is my sky for skywatch Friday season 4 episode 37
I didn’t have time to change my lens but I am pleased with how this came out.
Skywatch Friday
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Prompt 2
How much to share.
I think when I consider what to share on my blog, common sense is my guide. I think it is a very difficult thing to balance wanting to be open & honest and talk from the heart and remembering to type in code. I have to confess to being absolutely hopeless at consistency! I just, simply, forget.
We have a system at work that involves red crosses, yellow dots, purple lines, Oh I do try, honest I do but I fail every time.
I try to make my pictures all look the same, size or shape or overlay… hopeless!
Headings, now there’s a thing that drives my husband mad! if I have heading one in one post and bold in another, I can hear the intake of breath! Still at least I know when he has read the blog.
In my work I am very circumspect about what I tell people about myself. I think that it is a survival thing with me, I can’t support people through difficult times If I can’t be completely detached from them.
When I talk with people I can be more measured in what I talk about but when I write/type, everything in my mind just pours onto the page! I would never make a crime or mystery writer, I would give the plot away in the first paragraph.
Journalling reads
Just another “Why?”
I remember teaching my son the names of the birds as we walked the dog along our local beach.
It was in the spring when the black headed gulls still had their winter markings, a black spot over their eyes.
We were watching the herring gulls gliding on the wind, the black headed gulls were standing in the surf.
“Do you see these gulls with the black spot over their eyes? They are the black headed gulls.
“Why are they called black headed when they aren’t?”
“Just now they still have their winter markings, in a few months they will all have a beautiful black head” I said.
“ How do they know when to change their outfits?” said my lad who was, and still is, clothes mad!
I thought about Shimelle’s prompt and made this page, then I went back and took out the names of the people and the place.
Definitely something for me to learn here.
The page is not finished because I just can’t work out how to do what I want to do. I’ll get back to it.
Project 365
Week 11
The visit to Westonbirt Arboritum came about because I seemed to be in a fog that I couldn’t see beyond, I was restless, I hadn’t slept well for days so needed to ‘get away from the house’ fortunately the weather was lovely on Saturday.
I knew you could take the dog into the Arboritum, Paul wasn’t keen on going but I think he saw the desperation in my face!
Westonbirt Arboritum is was such a lovely place to spend time in. It is quiet, you can walk anywhere, no barriers of fences or notices that begin with ‘Don’t…’ or ‘No…”
I love trees, their shape and their strength which I knew we would see as they are just waking from their winter. I am not so good at their names but every tree there has an identification label on!
I didn’t know that Westonbirt has the national collection of Japanese Acers which Paul loves. I bought him a gorgeous red one for our last wedding anniversary.
The dog loved it of course, it was doggy heaven! We met lovely friendly people that made me feel alive again. As a bonus Paul loved it too and we have planned another day there to see the magnolias and the bluebells.
When I work in Nailsea, which is not very often, I love to go to the craft shop there. Today I was shocked to see that it has closed. I knew the lovely lady that owned it. She worked so hard: she was so much more than just ‘the lady that owned the craft shop’. I wish her well for her future.
Another anniversary this week, and a funeral as well.
It is 9 years since dad passed away, I thought about that day today, and the years that went before and the years that have passed since.
Love them and talk with them while you can x
I had a lovely St. Patrick’s Day, I missed the shamrock which Ellen used to send to Mum. We have had cards and plants, leaves and pins and all sorts over the years!
Today I saw some beautiful shamrock earrings on my friend Mary. I definitely need some of those!
I was working of course but my group were lovely, and funny and pleased with what we did and in good voice and humor. I am so fortunate.
Tomorrow will come and go, I will be with my family, we will get through and come home and I will hug my child so close to me and thank God for him as I do every day.
A belated ‘Happy St. Patricks Day’ to you!
I am hoping that my glass of Patricks Parsley will make you smile xx
It's just parsley. I don't have any Shamrock this year, this idea made me smile!
Thank you for the LO Alexa.
Currents
17th March 2011 Currents
I want to start my Currents list again which I found here
I am going to make a book, a mini book. I have gathered together my birthday cards from last month. This time I am going to keep the whole card. On one side I will write my ‘Currents’ and on the other side something about the person that sent me the card and anything else I can think of to say.
I will bind them together with my Bind it all, or on large rings, whatever I can find. There will be ribbon and brads, papers and flowers, completely embellished as all good mini books should be!
So, a kind of a diary then?
Well yes I suppose it is!
With lists in?
Yes
So a book of lists!
Well yes. I can’t help it! (my name is Miriam and I make lists).
The thing is I had such lovely birthday cards, I just can’t throw them away and I have withdrawal symptoms from paper and glue and someone just gave me a bunch of ribbons!
No, not blue!
listening: to the blackbird in my garden, it is 6.50pm, dark and he is still calling.
eating: Nothing, waiting for dinner. Beef and roasted red pepper stir fry tonight.
drinking: a lovely chilled glass of Pinot Grigio…my favourite
wearing: black skirt white top, black short sleeved loose knit wrap, Huge, brightly coloured beads. Work stuff!
feeling: up beat, I have had a good working day and got loads done.
weather: This week: We have had some beautiful spring sunshine, a very welcome change from cold and rain!
wanting: dinner, now that I have thought about it!
thinking: how good it feels to be posting again
enjoying: starting this again,
wondering: What tomorrow will bring? Family time will be good, but a family funeral, not so good.
I want to extend this for my new book.
so,
the month so far, what do we think?
at home: It’s been a tough month so far and still two weeks to
go; too many things to upset and worry me this month.
at work: Just snowed under with it! I had a nice day out on Tuesday with a colleague though. We went to Taunton in the sunshine and met some lovely people. It was kind of uplifting.
been anywhere nice this month? We went to Westonbirt Arboretum last weekend, had a great day: I can’t wait to return in May to see the bluebells and the Acers, which will be in leaf.
I drove back from my work a different way on Thursday and saw swans being fed by Sue, (a new friend). The pair of swans have been calling here for the last 20 years. Every year they bring their babies to visit. I missed them of course but Sue will let me know when they visit next year.
Plans? Just to get to the end of this month.
favourite photo:
The Swan
And this to show you why they keep returning.
Does anyone know the song by Christy Moore, Two Island Swans? I have been singing it all afternoon!
Do you know that when this happens to you it is called ‘an earworm’
lol
Around the world in 60 minutes
I saw this on the i player last night. It was fabulous.
‘David Morrissey narrates a unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home. What would you see during just one orbit of the Earth?’
It was a look at how our planet benefits from space travel.
The interview with Piers Sellars Mission Specialist was so interesting, his excitement at travelling in the shuttle was infectious, he gave little bits of info you never hear in other space programmes.
The pictures of our world from the space station, just wonderful.
The work the men & women on the space station and the fun they have.
The programme took us around the world stopping at various locations and telling us how the satellites in space have informed us about what is happening to our world, and with the knowledge gained how we can work towards saving our planet. The deforrestation of the rain forrest, beautiful Hawaii acting as a catch all for our abandoned plastics, the shrinking of Iceland, the northern and southern lights from space. the erosion lakes, the sky over China,
…to be able to look down and understand how things are interconnected
we’re starting to understand how we can influence the natural world and each other…
Cloudy moon taken October 2010
oooh, Im off to watch it all over again. Want to join me?