Two shots of yesterday evening’s rainbow 🌈

Auto-generated description: A rainbow arches across a partly cloudy sky above a lush green landscape with trees and shrubs.

Auto-generated description: A rainbow arcs across a blue sky with scattered clouds above a landscape featuring trees and shrubs.

I forgot to post this rainbow from yesterday evening 🌈

Against a grey cloudy sky, a rainbow arches over a green vegetation made up of a lawn, trees and bushes.

Hawai’i’s Coral Reefs Protected by Insurance

Well, this I learnt (I prefer the full English to the shorthands, TIL, though they have their place in a quick text) today. Hawai’i’s coral reefs are protected from storm damage by an insurance policy.

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Two views of this morning’s Easter double rainbow 🌈

A vibrant double rainbow arcs over a lush garden with various plants and a clear sky.

A beautiful double rainbow arches over a lush green landscape with a partly cloudy blue sky.

Looking over a wall from Kihei in South Maui towards the West Maui Mountains as Kona storm crept in on Thursday of this last week. There was thunder,lightning and heavy rain.

Looking over rocks built into a cement wall, towards some mountains and the ocean. Grey storm clouds overhead.

A beautiful view this afternoon from the cliffs near to Ho’okipa Beach Park. The island of Moloka’i is in the distance.

The blue sky with patchy cloud stretches to the horizon over a blue ocean. In the distance to the left is the island of Moloka’i. In the foreground is grass and a pathway. The sun shines down on the scene.

⛈️ A storm approaches. The thunder is getting louder and closer.

Adolescence covered a difficult and concerning subject, and did it so well. Well worth your time…

A review of the Netflix series Adolescence. The review felt that the series was excellent even if the material was concerning.

The Bunker: Saturday 12th April, 2025

All credit to the artist(s) 🎨

It has been a while, but The Bunker has undergone some minor updates. Or maybe it is some ”edits” to what was already there? Certainly not a full blown new mural.

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On Hedge Laying

James Rebanks, author of Pastoral Song : A Farmer’s Journey (do read it!), shared this photograph on BlueSky of a hedge being laid. I am guessing that it is on his farm in the Lake District in England? Rebanks’ photograph took me home, back to Britain, to a time and place that sits deeply in my heart. I’m seeing a clear winter’s day as in this picture. I’m seeing a hedge being laid, the first time that I have seen one, or at least noticed the practice of hedge laying.

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I’ve just added to new page to my website, Rainbows.

Given that I post so many photos of rainbows on this site, I decided to collect them all together using Micro.blog’s Photo Collections feature. As of today there are 89 photographs of rainbows here. The page will update as I add more…as I’m sure that I will!

😮‍💨 I’m heading to bed tonight exhausted, but it is a good exhaustion. I was working all afternoon in the garden, made some good progress clearing overcrowding plants (hopefully the light of a new day will show that I did), and now just need to lie down. Good night 🌙

Evening rainbow 🌈

Faint rainbow in a cloudy sky with a glimpse of a roof top in the bottom right of the photograph.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A faint rainbow rises up out of shrubbery over a tree with a blue sky and scattered cloud behind.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A lush green lawn is bordered by a variety of plants, with a faint rainbow visible against a partly cloudy sky in the distance

I’ve joined a writing group. We start writing this coming Thursday, instructions coming soon, write each day, meet up the following Thursday, select your best two pieces to read.

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I watched season 3 of The White Lotus because I had seen the previous two seasons, but…

A review of season 3 of the mini series The White Lotus. The reviewer did not think much of the series. A poster of the series is to the left of the review.

☕ It’s one of those nights when I’m going to bed looking forward to tomorrow morning’s coffee.

Wispy clouds at dusk.

Wispy clouds against a blue and clear sky with some faint oranges and yellows in the clouds at dusk. All this above the silhouette of vegetation and a hill top.

Geckos In The Morning

Sitting outside the other morning, drinking the first coffee of the day, I noticed leaves shaking out of sync with the early morning breeze that was blowing throw. I noticed it there, and there, and over there. Almost everywhere I looked there was a leaf or two shaking. On closer look I noticed geckos either on the leaves, or jumping down to a patch of grass that lay in the sun.

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