Yes, I know I did a “Moods of the Mountain” post only yesterday, but this morning’s rainbow was too good to resist (in fact, there had been a double rainbow earlier, but this shot is better).
The full Moods of the Mountain collection […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
The weather has been very miscellaneous today, with sunshine, rain, and blustery wind. It cleared for a while in the late afternoon, but this evening the clouds came in over the mountain, giving the sun a chance to do some quite spectacular crepuscular rays stuff, before the cold front all but filled the sky and the […] I don’t think I’ve ever had the opportunity to watch baby birds grow; I can’t believe how quickly they’re changing. Here are the three of them (I think it’s safe to say we’re down to three) yesterday evening, with their feathers well and truly in evidence. And here they are 24 hours later. There’s not a lot […] The latest update from the nest: they’re getting feathers, and now have open eyes … and it’s starting to get rather snug in there. I can’t help suspecting, though, that there may only be three of them now, instead of the four seen in the […] Sometime between last night and 8am this morning I changed my plans for the week rather radically. The agenda for the original plan had started out fairly concretely, with the intention of two days at work, after which the plan degenerated into vagueness, with some wishy-washy whim of spending a few days on Maria Island later […] The mum was off the nest again today so I chanced another photo of the hatchlings. At least one of them thought I might be a source […] The signs were good for an aurora tonight, and so I ventured down to Seven Mile Beach. And the aurora happened. The only troubles were that the best of it was between sunset and moonrise (which was before I even left home!) and that I totally failed to master/remember any of the techniques that I know I should […] I was mowing the lawn a week or so ago and noticed a bird’s nest in one of my trees, with a blackbird sitting on it so still I thought it was actually dead. Despite the fact that I mowed right up close to the tree, with my head less than 50cm away, she didn’t budge. […] 40 years ago tomorrow morning my Mum came into the bedroom that I shared with my two sisters and told us that the Tasman Bridge — which joins Hobart’s city centre and western suburbs with the eastern shore on which I lived (as I do now) — had collapsed the previous night, 5 January 1975. It […] After a frustrating new year’s morning spent reading a resubmitted PhD thesis I decided I was entitled to escape for the afternoon, so I called Mum and Dad to ask if they were up for a (possibly small) adventure. We decided to go in search of one of the roads that runs between Judbury (near Glen […] |
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