🌧️ It’s pouring in southern England right now. On my way down to Bristol from Heathrow airport.
🌧️ It’s pouring in southern England right now. On my way down to Bristol from Heathrow airport.
Celebrating 60 years orbiting the sun. This time in a hotel at San Francisco airport. On my way to England this evening.
Day 19 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Edge, suggested by @rnv
Two edges. The horizon and the west coast of the United States last night, just south of San Francisco.
We safely arrived at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at SFO, and there were two bottles of Prosecco and a box of chocolate biscuits waiting for me. Tomorrow is my birthday. Thank you Hyatt Hotel for recognizing tomorrow and celebrating with me on the road.
Tomorrow onto the UK to visit my mother, a visit that I had to cancel back in June as I was so ill.
Day 18 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Fabric, suggested by @adam
Rolls of indigo fabric. Chikugo, Japan.
Day 17 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: intense, suggested by @rori
The noise from these mechanical looms was intense, as in loud. They were weaving indigo cloth. Hirokawa, Japan.
Here is the full video of me leaning against the wind in the Isle of Skye. Yesterday, as a part of the September Photoblogging Challenge, I posted a still from this video.
Day 16 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: oof!, suggested by @bkryer
Being held up by the strong winds on the Isle of Skye.
😰 It is so humid outside right now, that it just saps my energy.
😰 It is so humid outside right now, that it just saps my energy.
Day 15 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Red, suggested by @chiawase
A red bicycle in Florence, Italy.
With the release of the new iPhones, I suddenly realise that my iPhone 13 Mini is already two years old. I have no plans to buy a new model, but boy, time flies.
The Trash Collectors
It’s Thursday evening. Time for the weekly ritual of putting the trash bins out for their collection on Friday morning. Tomorrow as I am waking up and making the first cup of coffee of the day, I will be greeted by the roar and grind of the truck carrying the trash collectors. It is a part of the weekly ritual marking the ticking of the weekly clock and the approaching week’s end.
Up until a couple of weeks ago I had not heard of the organization World Central Kitchen. While volunteering at Lahaina Gateway following the wild fires here on Maui, food was available through the day both for those coming to collect supplies and those helping in their distribution. One of those offering free meals was World Central Kitchen. While I was directing traffic, trucks came in a few times during the day to deliver food to their delivery post, where WCK workers were busy handing out free meals.
This blog post explains some of what they were doing on Maui, along side local organizations such as Chef Hui. Chef Hui itself was collecting food made by different chefs and food organizations on the island, all on a volunteer basis and using donated ingredients. Some friends of mine had a burrito production line set up to pass on for Chef Hui’s distribution.
Food is our fuel, and at the same time is what community comes together around. I love how World Central Kitchen is ready to move to a place that has been hit by a natural or man made disaster, looking to collaborate with local chefs to cook the food of that place, the comfort food of that place.
Thank you to all who have kept Maui fed through these difficult times.
Day 14 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Statue, suggested by @christopherchelpka
I found this character in Bristol, UK.
Danziger's Travels
There’s a quote from the book Danziger’s Travel that has sat with me since I returned from my travels in the early 1990s. Danziger’s words spoke to how I felt on returning to my home country, Britain. I was feeling lost and his words told me that I was not alone. Nick Danziger had returned from an extraordinary journey, traveling through Afghanistan during the war with Russia, crossing the Kunjerab Pass between Pakistan and China before it was open to foreigners, making his way into Tibet when that country as well was closed to foreigners, and after finally arriving in Beijing he found a boat to take him back to the UK.
Day 13 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Glowing, suggested by @anniegreens
A hotel lobby somewhere in Kyoto.
Day 12 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Panic, suggested by @maique
While I’m not sure that I was panicking, at times I felt uncomfortable as we walked up the switchbacks of the precipitous Halemau’u Trail at the end of our crater hike last week.
Day 11 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Retrospect, suggested by @chadgmoore
This just fitted the bill for me for retrospect. A area from my past and which is still in my heart.
