Finished reading: Spring by Michael Morpurgo. 📚

I finished reading this while listening to Ralph Vaughn Williams’s Lark Ascending, which felt wholly appropriate for a book describing a British Spring.

I came across this conversation on YouTube and found it fascinating. A short conversation with physicist Dr. Brian Cox and Stephan Colbert, in which Cox explores or asks the question of what it means to be who we are in the vastness of the Universe.

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A rainbow, or should I say a double rainbow that showed itself while I was in Britain. My wife sent me the photograph, so photo credit to her. 🌈

A vibrant double rainbow arches over a lush garden landscape with a clear blue sky and scattered clouds. Long shadows extend across the lawn.

A visit back home to Bristol is not complete without a walk across the Downs.

An oak tree with a thick trunk and multiple sprawling branches is set against a blue sky with green foliage and grass in the background.

Beech tree branches with a dense canopy of green and copper coloured leaves create a natural ceiling, allowing specks of sunlight to filter through.

Cricket on The Close.

A large open field features a cricket game in progress, in the background are the buildings of Clifton College, a private school in Bristol, England. To the right is a large tent. All under a clear blue sky.

This morning’s view. The TWA hotel at JFK.

A corridor on an incline with a red carpet on the floor, curved white walls and a sand colored ceiling. At the far end a faint blue room is visible.

This morning there were four rainbows over the space of a couple of hours. One was too big to capture in one photo. Because of the number and size, I have made two collages of this morning’s rainbows 🌈

A collage of two photos of a rainbow against a grey cloudy sky over a hill of vegetation and a lawn.

A collage of three photos of rainbows against a cloudy sky over vegetation and a lawn.

These two were out for a stroll this morning.

Another snail I saw making its way across the driveway. An hour later it was almost across. Oh to live such an unhurried life.

Two snails crawling through the grass. A sunny hillside is seen in the distance.

A rainbow spotted while out walking this evening 🌈

Looking across a field of rough long grass, bushes and trees. A part rainbow is visible between a tree and the ground. Large clouds hang over head.

Looking across a field to a rainbow rising up out of the ocean. Big cloud in the sky.

☔ Well that sudden but big downpour cleared my head. I’m constantly surprised how atmospheric pressure build up gives me a headache. I probably shouldn’t be by now. I think that it is more surprise that such happens. I guess that my head is just sensitive to atmospheric conditions?

It cleared the air as well. Everything feels fresher now.

This evening’s double rainbow 🌈

A partial double rainbow disappearing into thick dark cloud. Below is a thick hedge and lawn with a green propane tank in the middle of the hedge.

Yesterday’s trip to the Green Waste dump here on Maui was like visiting a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie set.

A cloudy sky with patches of blue showing. Below a very large pile of green waste sits on dry dirt with coconut husks and pallets lying beside it. Debris blows through the air.

The trade winds were blowing strong and a machine was turning over the pile of composting waste, sending debris blowing everywhere. As I got out of the truck, waste blew into the truck before I could get the door closed. It blew into my face and under my sun glasses as I tried to get my green waste out of the back of the truck. I sort of adopted a sideways stance to counter what was blowing so violently through the air.

Opening the truck door again blew more waste in. I put the air conditioning full on to clear the air as I drove away.

A truck sits dwarfed by two huge piles of compost sitting on dry earth. A machine turns the compost over, sending debris flying through the air. Above is a cloudy sky.

I scraped this mud wasp nest off the floor, under a chair while moving furniture over the weekend. It had long since been vacated, but still was well and truly stuck to the floor.

A mud wasp nest after being scraped off the floor. Three holes show the entrances for the lava.

Getting Stuff Done...Or Not. Dealing with My Resistance

I’ve probably made reference to this before on my blog: When I get a job done that I have put off, I wonder why I put it off in the first place? What was I thinking? With the job done I find myself sitting in the satisfaction of having completed something. If I have done it well, there is added icing on the cake. There is also not the added weight of jobs looming over me - and inevitably that weight increasing as more jobs are put off.

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Changing it up a bit. This morning’s in house rainbow 🌈

Refracted sun light causing a spectrum of light, a rainbow, to be displayed on the wall. In front of it is a metal mesh shelf and some poles.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A partial rainbow is seen against a big white cloud in a blue sky. This is above a lot of vegetation and lawn.

This evening’s double rainbow, seen over a hedge and through the Betel Nut and Lychee trees.

A double rainbow against a cloudy sky with patches of blue, over a green hedge partially lit by the sun.

A rainbow seen behind tall Betel Nut trees and a Lychee Tree with fruit.

Baby Beach, North Shore Maui.

A black and white photo showing a striped towel on a beach with small waves breaking on the ocean, some land to the left and sky with wispy clouds.

Finally, finally, finally, the rain that has been forecast over the last few days, has sat lingering, watching, waiting over the last few days, that rain is finally falling, and with it the air has broken. The heavy pressure in the air has released and the temperature now has a cool edge to it.

I am welcoming the sound of rain on the roof, the grey clouds over head and the sight of falling rain.

This land needs the water. The air feels lighter for rain falling, and there is a freshness to the atmosphere. It feels clearer to breathe.

🥵 Phew! It’s hot out there. Rain has been forecast for the last few days, but I think that the sun has been drying out the clouds as they form.

However, the clouds as amassing now, so maybe some cooling showers this afternoon?