Photographs

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 26: Critter suggested by @7robots

A large plastic model of a swan on a trailer.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 25: Spine suggested by @thedimpause

A row of book spines. All but one is blue and all the blue books are by Herbert Casson.

Just home from an evening walk along the Sado River. Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution here in Portugal. In Alcácer do Sal tonight Rui Veloso will be on stage beside the Sado at 10:00pm with fireworks at midnight…and then the party goes on until the early hours.

I don’t know how much I will manage to see tonight, but we were treated to a sound check by Rui on our walk. The first time that I have heard his music, and I liked it.

View through street seating for a bar by the Sado River in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 24: Light suggested by @eumrz

An ornate light mounted on a wooden wall. The light is made up of a number of lights at right angles to each other. In front on a plinth on a tiled floor, is a telephone

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 23: Dreamy suggested by @maique

A lake surrounded by a woodland with moss, a hut on the bank and a moored rowing boat

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 22: Blue suggested by @lzbth

A blue shed with random ornaments and dolls hung on the front

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 21: Mountain suggested by @dejus

A road running through the mountains of the Lake District with slate in the foreground.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 20: Ice suggested by @the

This photograph shows the terminus of the Batura Glacier in the Karakorum mountains of Pakistan. It sits at around 4,000m (13,123ft), and at the time that I visited the glacier terminated 0.5km from the Karakoram Highway.

The terminus of the Batura Glacier in Pakistan showing a wall of ice with rocks and boulders in the foreground.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 19: Birthday suggested by me (@crossingthethreshold)

A series of small flags on a piece of string spelling out Happy Birthday. Strung above an open glass door with a view to outside

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 18: Mood suggested by @agilelisa

A rowing boat and small sail boat moored in a river estuary. In the foreground is a small rusty walkway. In the background are rolling green meadows and buildings just poking over the trees.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 17: Transcendence suggested by @drewbelf

Tibetan Buddhist Stupa

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 16: Flâneur suggested by @chrisaldrich

People walking along a street in Kyoto, Japan.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 15: Small suggested by @jmanes

A black and white photo of a small, tortoise shaped pin cushion

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 14: Cactus suggested by @christopherchelpka

Small cactus in a pot

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 13: Page suggested by @robj

A journal resting on my lap in a dark room, illuminated by a book reading light.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 12: Magic suggested by @DaveyCraney

The outline of a person maybe Shakespeare, on a wall surrounding a door, approached by a wooden bridge.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 11: Sky suggested by @jedda

The sun pears through a thick cloud fog as people and a dog sit around a picnic blanket looking on.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 10: Train suggested by @starrwulfe

Looking down on a train approaching a station.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 9: Crispy suggested by @rom

Grilling fish in a Japanese restaurant.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 8: Prevention suggested by @anniegreens

A fence in focus, behind which is a sports playing field and distant buildings.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 7: Well-Being suggested by @ridwan

Me floating in the ocean.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 6: Windy suggested by @Miraz

An overcast windy day on the Isle of Skye, as spied through the ruins of an old church.

A frame of an old church window in the ruins of a church, looking out on an overcast, wet and windy day

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 5: Serene suggested by @chiawase

My quiet spot, wherever I am in the world, by the River Wye at Tintern Abby

Weeping Willow over hanging the River Wye in South Wales

Looking out over Bristol tonight.

Looking out over the city of Bristol at nighttime

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 4: Foliage suggested by @pratik

A remote valley on the north east side of Haleakala.

Looking out into a remote and heavily wooded valley on the north east side of Haleakala

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 1: Toy suggested by @pcora

A row of wooden toys in the shape of castles, people and animals, all sitting on a shelf with a window behind. Outside there is blue sky and a green hedge.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A rainbow traverses the sky, slightly broken by cloud. In the foreground is a flower bed full of vegetation and a lawn.

I love this overcast, wet weather. I have the French windows open so that I can listen to the sound of the falling rain, and as it trickles down the down pipe from the gutters.

A heavily overcast sky, rain falling, a herbaceous border with a lawn in the foreground. On the lawn is a wheelbarrow with plants in it.

Cheeky Devil in China Town, Honolulu.

A sticker on a pipe depicting a walking green devil with black shoes on, small white wings, a pointy tail, a smiley face with horns on top, and above him a halo

A Little Bit of Magic in the Air

Maui has so many microclimates, and with that the weather can vary in a very short space of time. Yesterday from what I could see most of the island was covered in cloud. Where I live there was a lot of wind, but I had to run Upcountry and there the air was very different. It was still, so still. Even the landscape felt still. Being March there was a little chill in the air as well.

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