Sunrise from Aylsham (I stopped Car and got out to look at the sunrise - this was just before 6am last Wednesday)
If you look very carefully, atop the pointy bit on the roof of the Norwich University of the Arts (I used to go here back when it was known as the Norfolk Institute of Art and Design) you'll spy a cormorant!
This was the view that greeted me on Thursday evening as Bitey led me home after our walk: The Moon with Venus peeking through the top of the trees.
And over Hexenhäusli Device, Jupiter (the brightest point of light) sailing through the constellation Gemini (last featured in full here). The two stars above left of Jupiter are Alpha and Beta Geminorum, or Castor and Pollux.
From yesterday: Cherry blossom at Allotment Device. I can't get enough of its scent!
And finally, this is my favourite tree in the village. It stands opposite the track up to the allotments so I always get a good look as walk home.
(There used to be another tree partially obscuring it, but it was cut down last year. Or the year before? I can't remember.)
I have just spent a rather enjoyable couple of hours up the allotment not having a bonfire (more on that in another post. Possibly). While I was there, this fuzzy behind caught my eye.
I whipped Camera out and took loads of snaps, hoping that at least one or two might be in focus (Camera is, I fear, on its last legs. The zoom lens thingy keeps getting stuck and a stern warning flashes up telling me to switch off and on again). It turned out that ALL of them were in focus! So that meant I had the harrowing job of whittling down EIGHT photos to four (I know. As many as eight. I'm already on my second glass of wine!), in order to construct this Four Photos post.
"Fame! I wanna live forever..." keeps flashing through my head at this pose
I hadn't intended to do another of these 'What song...' posts* so soon, but as I was waking up this morning, "A Little Time" was running through my head so I trapped it for use later in the day - i.e now.
I think it came from a dream I only have vague recollections of now? In my dream I was getting ready to leave a big, many roomed house. There were a few other people there but they were staying, or at least not coming with me. I have a feeling that there was another big house close by - a neighbouring property - which I may or may not have seen once I got outside. But it was at that point that I woke myself up properly because the song was already in my head.
I don't know if it was playing in my dream, or whether someone said something which reminded me of the lyrics, but however it was conjured up, it's here now.
At the risk of having it stuck in there again (or maybe it's still there?), what song was your last earworm?
* A little like the '4 Photos' posts, I thought I could do 'What song...'s once in a while to break up the barren expanses of NotBlogging that occasionallysometimes often occur here these days.
I'd finished my swim, had a shower, and was partially dressed in the changing cubicle this morning when the first song accompanying the ladies-of-a-certain-age doing aquarobics came on: "Groove Is In The Heart"
I was a bit glum because I'd had to finish my swim earlier than anticipated to make way for the aquarobics class (which had been brought forward from Friday because the pool is being closed for two weeks for maintenance), and My Lifeguard wasn't there which means I won't see him for at least two weeks (because of that dratted but probably essential maintenance). However, Deee-Lite soon cheered me up and before I knew it, I was Lady Miss Kier in the cubicle!
This year I actually made something out of the sour, pointless red currants from the allotment: fruit leather.
It's horrible. It gets stuck to ones teeth and no one likes it. I only made it because Vom Smallhausen and Count Podgkinson foolishly picked some currants after I'd taken them up the allotment (fruit leather was the least complicated recipe I could find that used the most red currants). The red currant bush is getting dug up this winter!
View up Northrepps Road
Parasol mushroom
Escaping the heat - and Bitey - was this toad.
P. S. Apologies for my absence, I have been busy with summer and taking photos for the Grand Gardening Competition in October, or sooner??
While I have been busy with summer and taking photos for the Grand Gardening Competi- I mean, Garden Photos Event, I have also been sorting out the garden & allotment, engaged in a few social activities (pah!), exhausted myselves trying to eke out some sort of service from a couple of companies so-called "customer service" departments/teams, and have been lumbered with nieces and nephew far more often that I would have liked!
(Except for the toad, these photos are from 2nd August and I started this post on the 8th!)
Also, Ms Scarlet had locked me in her attic without food nor a bath mat - but that's a story for another time...
And last week The Mother discovered this on the lawn. Well Bitey discovered it and The Mother went over to see what he was staring at. An elephant hawkmoth caterpillar (she thought it was a poo!)
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!* It's going to devour us all!!!!
A hummingbird hawk moth drinking from one of the buddleias in the Hexenhäusli Device gardens this afternoon.
Oh my gods!!! They're almost holding hands! They're going to do It*!!!!!!
(Two of my three favourite** lowest of the Lower Deckers - Fin*** the super-hot, pretty boy human med tech and Charlie**** the adorable Andorian engineer - from the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, "Twovix". I took this photo back in April as I couldn't take a screen shot and couldn't find one online [I have found one since then, though] - I wanted it for research purposes, the end result of which will probably be posted here at some point.)
Bitey on the beach on Wednesday evening.
Someone in this house had this for tea on Wednesday - and it certainly wasn't me!
* According to First Officer Jack Ransom (in "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"), the Cerritos is the "horniest ship in the fleet" (and doesn't have any married couples on board).
*** He's not named in the show as he's just a non-speaking background character, but he looks remarkably like my backup lifeguard at the pool I swim in, so I've given him the same name.
An hour or so later it had disappeared - probably having climbed high enough to launch itself into the air and fly away to somewhere more hospitable (and darker) than my carport.
What? Since when was two people showing a polite, vague interest "popular demand"?
Since now. Go and interfere somewhere else. This is my post!
I think you'll find it is our post. After all, whose name is on all those header images further down, hmm?
Oh, hush. Why don't you go and see to that ever widening Cusp interface before someone - or someones - falls in!
Fine. I'll leave you to your little doodles, then!
Right. Now that Witchface has gone, here is the Art vs Artist thingy I mentioned in the last post. It's something I saw on BlueSky so I thought I'd have a go, too.
The majority that I saw are 3x3 square grids with a photo of the artist in the centre square surrounded by eight pieces of their work, so I followed the same pattern (it's all Star Trek stuff as I rarely produce any other kind):
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