🌧️ Rain stopped play. I was outside topping the hedge and this cloud out of nowhere and dropped a quick but heavy shower. That stopped almost as soon as it started, but not for long. The rain is falling and I can see no blue sky in sight. So I’ve come inside now and am just seeing what is happening online.
I’m not sure that I totally understand this, but I like it 🦖
Sitting here listening to The Lark Ascending by Vaughn Williams and I am transported back to an English summer day. I’m sitting on a hill top looking out onto a view of rolling fields stretching into the distance. Blue sky and sun above, scattered clouds, a light breeze. The lazy hours of early afternoon as the heat of the day lulls the insects and birds into a quietness. An occasional tweet, the scratching of grasshopper legs, the popping of a seed head.
And then there is the song of the Lark rising above the landscape.
I did not realize that Vaughn Williams took as his inspiration for the piece, an 1881 poem by the English writer George Meredith. Williams second wife, Ursula, wrote that in composing the piece Williams had,
taken a literary idea on which to build his musical thought … and had made the violin become both the bird’s song and its flight, being, rather than illustrating the poem from which the title was taken.1
🔌 Last weekend we got through a hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression with no power outages. From my experience here, that is not what I would have expected.
Today has been a beautiful day and it ends with the power going out an hour before sunset. An hour and a half in and still there is no clear idea when everything will be up and running again.
🔌 Last weekend we got through a hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression with no power outages. From my experience here, that is not what I would have expected.
Today has been a beautiful day and it ends with the power going out an hour before sunset. An hour and a half in and still there is no clear idea when everything will be up and running again.
And then there is this evening’s rainbow, two if you look close. Two minutes later it started raining and the rainbow was gone 🌈
A rainbow from yesterday evening 🌈
My 2020 13-inch MacBook Air running MacOS 14.6.1 is definitely crashing more than any Mac I have owned for a good number of years - I would almost say ever, going back to the 1990s. Maybe it is because I am running an OS that is pushing the Air to its limits, but I think not. I never install a new OS unless Apple declares that the machine that I have can manage it. I have had slow running computers because the one that I am running is being pushed to its limits because of the OS that I am running, but never crashing.
I’m going to make a guess and say that I think that the quality of Apple’s software has declined. If others know otherwise, or hypothesize other reasons, please put me right on this if I am putting the blame in the wrong place.
I might live to regret posting this commitment 🫠, but today I started using Duolingo to learn Portuguese. I realize that Duolingo’s Portuguese is Brazilian and those in the know tell me that there are differences, but I would like to use Duolingo to get me going. As a backup, I have another app that has European Portuguese, it just does not have an ongoing program.
About a year ago @jean shared some resources with me which definitely helped, Portuguese went from being a series of sounds to indentifiable words starting to shine through. However, I feel that I need a lower level commitment. A challenge, yes, but I need to change the pace of that challenge.
I’ll see where Duolingo can take me. Day one completed.
A video for the Pacific Wave Appreciate Society. This one was taken on Maui’s north west coast. 🌊
😮💨 I’m exhausted. Today was a long day.
😮💨 I’m exhausted. Today was a long day.
A new thing to look forward to on Fridays - @iconfactory’s latest build of Tapestry.
I’m feeling that post exercise glow right now. I’m not long back from the next run in the Watch To 5K program that I’m following - or at least trying to; I came to an abrupt halt earlier this year when I attempted to make it to 5K.
We have a Tropical Depression, essentially a Tropical Storm that is running out of puff, going over the island right now. The conditions are overcast, hot, muggy and next to no wind. It poured last night. So today I appreciated no direct sunlight, no wind to run into, and was alright with the muggy conditions.
I was feeling it in my legs by the end of today’s session, and tried to stay away from my old, and unhelpful habit of racing against myself. I pulled back and tried to maintain a steady pace.
I am considering repeating week 2 before moving onto week 3.
So I now have a Shortcut accessible from my iPhone Lock Screen. When I press on icon to launch it, I am presented with a window to type some text. When I am finished typing I press Done. I’m asked if the text has a category on my blog, and from there it is published. Like this one 🥳
From my phone’s Lock Screen to typing to posted blog - let’s see if this works.
“I hope that something good happens to you today.”
🥵 It’s humid today. Muggy, like walking through a think cloud of invisible warm water. I think a prelude to Tropical Depression Gilma arriving here this weekend. Gilma is waning which is a blessing. Last week it was a hurricane midway between the US west coast and Hawaii.
🥵 It’s humid today. Muggy, like walking through a think cloud of invisible warm water. I think a prelude to Tropical Depression Gilma arriving here this weekend. Gilma is waning which is a blessing. Last week it was a hurricane midway between the US west coast and Hawaii.
I’m slowly making my way back through the Watch To 5K program. I have just completed the second run of week 2. At the moment I feel that I am pacing myself better than last time. Not racing against myself, but rather trying to set a steady pace to work my way through the program.
I’m enjoying the new venue for my run as well. I’ve chosen the path that runs along the bottom of the runway at Kahului airport. I’m not running round a busy park now, working my way through thick grass or over tree routes. Now it is an even surface. I get to watch the aircraft come and go, and wave at new arrivals. On the other side, just over the bushes and dunes, and visible at times is the ocean.
Onto week 2 run 3 in two days.