Tuesday 10 May 2022
Wednesday 4 May 2022
Saturday 30 April 2022
Moonbow over Aberporth.
The village was quiet, no one else around, which probably means it was outside of the holiday season, and still fairly warm, I guess around the end of September.
The Moon had not long risen and the darkened sky had just a few scattered clouds.
And there it was, a magnificent arc of light spanning the village, a rainbow, or more precisely a Moonbow.
It had none of the colours we normally see, only a white glow with hints of darker/lighter graduation in place of the individual rainbow colours.
It was fascinating, I realised it was a rare event, so I simply stood in the middle of the road and observed for as long as possible.
Sadly it was all over in what felt like a minute or so.
Wow.. that was nearly 34 years ago! .. I wonder if I'll ever see the like again?
Friday 29 April 2022
Carborundum ~ a dreamer's Poetry Book.
My dreaming mind added the image to a poetry book cover, inside were to be twelve poems.
For some reason the title of the poetry book was clearly etched into the dream, it was simply one word:
CARBORUNDUM.
Why Carborundum? .. I had no idea; I searched the internet and found a few suggestions.
Out of the several possibilities one stood out, and had a possible unconscious dream meaning.
Wednesday 27 April 2022
Today's Sol prominence image.
Head in the clouds.
Today, whilst looking through some old phone pictures, I found these cloud captures from back last October.
I remember that day being a typical Pembrokeshire day i.e rain, sleet, sunshine and wind.
Four seasons rolled into one!
"Head in the clouds" was an accusation often thrown at me as a kid.
Yes I freely admit to being a total "head in the clouds" sort of person, both then and now.
To ponder the Universe with cloud company has to be in the top ten of things to do.
Here's great book to familiarise yourself with all things clouds:
The Cloud Appreciation Society web site is well worth a look.
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
Sunday 24 April 2022
The silent tick of the cycling solar clock.
We humans love our patterns and cycles, the cyclical ebb and flow of the seas, the cycles of lunar phases, the changing of the seasons, the change of night to day and back again.
What could better display our ancestors fascination with cycles, than that of the humble sundial.
Apparently the earliest known sundials date back to at least 1500 BC !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial
The above sundial was spotted today at a nearby church, I wonder how many other churches have sundials hidden away in their grounds?
I will have to make a trip soon to a church I know in our local town, which has a sundial fixed vertically to the church wall.
I will endeavour to take a picture and put up a blog post about it.
The above picture shows that the time was 1.30pm GMT, not bad considering my phone's timekeeper was at 2.47pm BST.
It seems this sundial was 17 minutes slow...
Considering the sundial is circa 1500BC technology, I think I can live with the 17 minute variance!
The French Scorpion.
Last night we camped in the village of Sereilhac, some maybe 20 miles south west of Limoges. The temperature all day hovered around 30°C ! ...
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Today's Sol image revealed a beautiful snake like filament . It got me thinking... How long is that filament? With the help of the lapt...
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This year's Christmas tree The roaring winds dropped, the clouds parted and the night of Christmas day was cloaked in the light of the...
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Took a spin to Newgale today, we haven't been for ages, at least not since the pandemic. It was wonderful to see the vast stretch of be...