Things for which I give thanks this week…
1.- Much a si don’t want to perpetuate the myth that british people talk about the weather dfirst and fore most – ITS RAINING – at last, after our fifthe heat wave!!!!!
2.- The tree at the supermarket which i reported as burnt by the heat a few weeks ago, is only half burnt (Half a hypograt?) The other side from my photo has survived…
3.- Grateful for municipal plantings – these are in nearby Skipton
4.- Having found it hard to coat paper evenly for my cyanotype prints, I ordered some ready-coated paper – made in China but transported via the Amazon if you can make sense of that. Of course, the change in the weather made accurate exposure timings dificult but I managed enough prints for this weeks poetry postcards and sent off eight – only seven more to go plus bonus cards to those who included thier addresses…
5.- Along the top of this page are various buttons which filter the type of posts and I realised I hadn’t updated the Poems Page/button for over a year and so I completed that today… Or press here!
6.- We watched Paddington – the film at the recommendation of our Doctor grandson (not boasting there) and really enjoyed it – highly recommend – especially if you have children around…
7.- Am tentatively planning a roadtrip for next month Ferry to Rotterdam to Geneva with two AirbnB stops along the way via Luxembourg and Strasbourg and the Rhine Valley. We have a recently widdowed niece and her sons in Geneva. Then back via Paris and Calais… Barbara is nor wholly on board yet but I am working on it…
8.- still two weeks of school holodays which means 35minutes to work instead of one hour!
9.- Have stuck to all my “Deadlines” short story prompts and am building a small following of commenters there – sadly it is a closed site but I might repost some of the short stories on the blog if anyone is interested…
10.- TToT and all who sail in her…
A very good week to all of you!
Oh rain! Goodness me, please don’t keep it all to yourself, Andrew! And that road trip sounds glorious. We did a similar journey a few years ago to Milano. The route was unbelievably beautiful.
I am doing a little rain dance to get the rain to change direction slightly and to head your way, Marilyn…
I’m sure you know about the tree but have posed this puzzle to unsuspecting readers.
That tree has many xylem vessels to transport water and minerals to its branches. Maybe the vessels supporting the affected branches couldn’t absorb enough water from the soil. The other side of that tree is lucky; their supplying vessels has different roots from the other side of the ground that probably has more water.
Lovely to see vibrant colors in flowers.
Your Cyanotype prints are beautiful, as usual.
Good luck on holiday plans.
May you see a good week too.
Thanks, Cai, there are still some tiny green leaves at the end of the burnt branches which suggests that the entire branch is not dead and that all may be well next year, fingers crossed…
You have a great week too!
It looks like the half-burnt tree will survive. May your planned trip be a wonderful experience.
Thanks, Frank – still in the early planning stages as yet…