This week’s photo in the 52 weeks challenge for 2011. Today’s sunrise from our bathroom window which was absolutely spectacular for all of about five minutes.
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1/52 Solar Eclipse, London Style
Solar Eclipse, London Style [2011 week 1], originally uploaded by kcm76.
This is the view of the solar eclipse just after sunrise yesterday (Tuesday 04/01/2011) from my study window. Like what eclipse? Typical of the UK to cock it up; can’t this country get anything right? Bah Humbug!
This is also my first photo for the “52 weeks” (ie. a photo a week) I’m doing this year. I hope I can keep up the standard of getting something off-beat each week. Watch this space.
Fox Tracks in the Snow
Not a terribly good picture as it was taken in a hurry to a waiting taxi, but there were lots of fox tracks in the snow through our front garden and along the pavement. And yes they are fox: you can just see impressions of the claws (which rules out cat, which would be smaller too) and they are too narrow for dog.
Interestingly they usually go over our neighbour’s low brick walls between gardens (there’s a nice trail of tracks and snow knocked off the walls) rather than go round the end of the wall which is only 3 yards away – and yes, I have seen Mr Reynard do this!
Like them or not they are an incredibly efficient rubbish disposal system. Last night Noreen put out the bones from Sunday’s oxtail casserole. No sign of the bones this morning, just lots of Reynard tracks.
Something for the Season
A11 Sunset, originally uploaded by kcm76.
I took this photo on the journey from Norwich to London on 27/11/2010, late afternoon. We are heading south across Thetford Chase. I always seem to take shots of those trees as they always stand out well against the sky! Oh, and before anyone asks, no I wasn’t doing the driving!
Not a Remembrance Day Poppy
Something to cheer everyone up a bit on this dull, grey, wet and windy November week.
Having spent the summer outside on the patio enjoying sun and rain our Hibiscus has recently been brought into the kitchen for the winter and is sending out new shoots and leaves and is still flowering!
Quotes of the Week
This week’s selection …
Enlightened One by martisimas on Flickr
Enlightened One
My staff pays the mortgage,
but the house is all mine …
For the world is my oyster
… but tuna’s just fine.
[Cool Hand Luke]
Any photographer who says he isn’t a voyeur is either stupid or a liar.
[Helmut Newton]What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.
[unknown]Love is space and time measured by the heart.
[Marcel Proust]
Quotes of the Week
Here, in random order, is this week’s rather rich helping of amusing and insightful quotes.
The first two are from Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert; right on the money as always:
A CEO has something called a “vision.” That is a view of the future that is not supported by evidence.
[Scott Adams at The Scott Adams Blog]The primary function of a CEO is hurting other people, specifically the stockholders and employees of competing companies. He wants to take their market share, their wealth, and their happiness. And a CEO isn’t too affectionate with his vendors and employees either.
[Scott Adams at The Scott Adams Blog]
I can think of many who won’t like the next, but again it is so true:
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
[Found on Tumblr]
And this was from a video clip of an interview with a couple of gays; it cracked me up!
Love at first innuendo.
[Dan Savage]
This one is for Katy …
Eat cake. Change lives.
[Macmillan Cancer Support advertisement]
I couldn’t resist this wonderful critical put-down on a paragraph of absolute scientific mumbo-jumbo:
That paragraph reads like he authors were cobbling together a braille sentence using the random distribution of acne on someone’s back.
[Jesse Bering at www.scientificamerican.com/blog/, 22/09/2010]
If only I’d been told this next many years ago!
The only disability in life is a bad attitude
[Quoted by Kittypinkstars at Flickr]
How the other half live:
Glamour model Katie Price has been found guilty of not being in proper control of her pink horsebox after veering into another lane in Sussex.
[BBC News]
Needless to say it was the very idea of a pink horsebox which got me! And so finally an interesting “off the wall” take which again contains a huge element of truth:
I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That’s how you make atheists.
[Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists]
That’s all for this week.
Edith Nesbit Grave
Another snap from our recent break in Rye.
Children’s author Edith Nesbit is buried at St Mary-in-the-Marsh and the grave marked by this simple wooden marker. Actually this isn’t the original – that fell apart some years ago and was replaced by Edith Nesbit’s family. The remains of the original are in the church along with a memorial plaque.
St Mary-in-the-Marsh is a lovely little country church, almost in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by the fields of the Romney Marsh. As well as the memorial to Edith Nesbit it contains a memorial plaque to Anne Roper, one of the earliest and still foremost historians of the Romney Marsh. The village itself, just a few miles inland from New Romney, is little more than a dozen houses, the church and a pub. It really is in the middle of the country and still filled with summer birdsong – a delightful place for a quiet half hour or so.
Prospect Cottage Garden
Another images from our recent visit to Rye.
This is a detail from the garden at Prospect Cottage, the late Derek Jarman‘s home at Dungeness. The stone circle is probably just under 3 feet across and is built on the natural gravel surface.
Pavement Liverwort
Liverwort, originally uploaded by kcm76.I was in Pinner today to see my hypnotherapist. When I left I was surprised to spot this this roughly 150mm across patch of liverwort growing among the the paving slabs and general detritus. I’m no expert on liverworts although I think this is a common one, but still a nice surprise find.