A two-month-long journey was begun today. Youngest daughter drove me through the snow to the elder daughter’s place for a last kids & boyfriends get together for a while. Food, beer, winning rugby and laughs – a pretty good day.
It snows only very rarely here on the south coast of UK and on this occasion it fell during the hours of darkness, whilst I was out collecting my newly repaired and serviced bicycle.
I had a very domestic time at home today, making some goodies for me to take away with me when I leave on Saturday;
Meanwhile, my brother was doing something far more interesting;
Sticking with an aviation theme; the view above is of a light aircraft coming in to land (and in perspective, looking dangerously low) at Bournemouth airport – as seen from the vantage point below whilst out on a walk today
Out and about running errands in the sunshine today, I drove past the very small Bournemouth Aviation Museum. Here’s a view of one of their exhibits. It’s a front fuselage and cockpit of a Royal Air Force, Cold War Era, aircraft – can you guess what type it is?
Photos for the 25th and 26th have mysteriously disappeared from the memory card. Here are a couple of view from Sunday’s walk over Hengistbury Head to make up for it.
A fisheye lens view this morning of the sunrise from my bedroom window.
Today I took a trip with my daughter to Wedmore in Somerset. We went to have a look at a property she will be renting in the village as she starts a new job in the area in a little over a month’s time. The village is a very pretty place, which although quite small, has all the basic facilities that are needed for day-to-day living…………and 3 pubs!!
Having been mildly bitten by the astronomy bug over the last two days, I was up early again this morning to see a close alignment of the planets Venus and Jupiter. I have to say I was quite surprised at how easily they were to identify and just how bright they were. Through binoculars I could even tell that there was an eclipse happening on Venus (the higher and brighter dot in the photographs)
So, for me, the much-hyped Wolf, Blood, last-time-in-a-decade, Total eclipse of the Moon was a washout. Despite waking at 0315 in the morning and sitting out in the cold for two and a half hours, all I got was this:
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
The skies partially cleared for no more than a minute as the eclipse began and I rushed to align the tripod and camera. Auto-focusing was ineffective so I had one stab at manually focusing (which I haven’t quite nailed) and taking a shot before the clouds rolled back across, hiding the rest of the celestial event from view. The only blood red moon I can offer is this;
It’s a photoshop’ed image from yesterday that I’ve just added colour into. I wonder how many other ‘spectacular Wolf Moon images’ from this morning were created in this false way?
