My grandson has suddenly taken a keen interest in jigsaw puzzles, so I brought up this one that I had at home to do with him. He was doing well with it, but in the end it proved that little too advanced for him. I went ahead and finished it anyway. 🧩
How still it is this morning. Not a breath of wind and only the birds singing. It’s as though the world knows that it is the weekend.
This morning’s rainbow…and “yes,” that is a slip and slide going down that hill. 🌈
While I was studying for my Masters I wrote a paper on lichen and moss. Sadly I remember very little about the contents of the paper except a couple of points,
is a hybrid colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among filaments of multiple fungus species, along with bacteria embedded in the cortex or “skin”, in a mutualistic relationship. Lichens are the lifeform that first brought the term symbiosis (as Symbiotismus) into biological context.
I took these photographs yesterday of two tree trunks in our back garden. I am taking their coverage in both lichen and moss as a good indication of the good air quality that we have here.
All credit to the artist(s) 🎨
These updates are to the back side of the Bunker and inside of the building. When I took the inside shots the smell of fresh paint still lingered.
Finished reading: Poison is Medicine by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse 📚
Last night I was sitting reading a book on my Kobo Libra H2O, when notification of an update for the eReader popped up. Earlier this year Pocket, the read later service, announced that it was being discontinued. Pocket was integrated with Kobo devices so that web pages could be read later on Kobo. Although I am not a heavy user of read later tools - I tend to collect rather than read - I did appreciate being able to keep a handful of articles so that I could read them at the end of the day through my Kobo screen rather than on my Apple devices.
Nighttime.
Finished reading: Jénifer, or a French Princess - The (Truly) Unknown Islands (Jénifer, ou a Princesa da França - os Açores ignorados, in Portuguese) by Joel Neto 📚
Shadows.
What I appreciate most in my living situation is space. Or at least a place where I can go to be alone, to be creative, to sit, to read, to meditate. If space is not available, I will burrow out a small corner somewhere that I can psychically call my own and create the space that I want for the time that I need it.
Sunbathing on the rocks near Madalena, Pico Island, Azores. Across the water is the island of Faial.
A view of the eastern most edge of the south shore of the West Maui Mountains, taken as we approached the island on returning to Maui a couple of weeks ago.
This morning’s rainbow. There was a double rainbow, but the second one disappeared before I found my camera. 🌈
I browse through my RSS feeds this morning and find myself sitting here thinking of all the bloggers typing out their stories and thoughts.
…and for what reason…?
The story that I make up is, for the love of it. There are probably a myriad of other reasons, but I’m going with ”just because.”
Saturday evening I went to the wedding of a man who sits in my men’s group. We celebrated on the slopes of Haleakala as the sun set, looking across the island to the cloud covered West Maui Mountains, and across the Pacific to the island of Lanai. On Sunday afternoon we went to a Celebration of Life ceremony for a dear friend who passed away quite suddenly. Many, many family and friends came to share in honour the recently departed, sharing stories of her life late into the night.
The rainbows seem to be making a slow return. This morning one started to appear but then thought better of it. Yesterday morning we were blessed with this rainbow 🌈
I don’t know what is going on here, but I spotted these four characters in a shop window in Lisbon last year.
Finished reading: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks.
A wonderful book. If I had to put it down I was always thinking of when I would return to it, wanting to be transported back to the remote islands off the north west coast of Norway, where an old woman cared for Eider ducks and collected their down. Here is a short passage put to animated video (source unknown). 📚