Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime
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JacksonP, in reply to
Obviously the Aztecs were wrong, it’s today!
We both married Irish, so we'll be sweet. :-)
If you can't make an inappropriate Irish joke on St Patrick's day, when can you?
Cheers.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
We both married Irish, so we’ll be sweet. :-)
My Ma is English Irish, My Pa is Mexican (Aztec descent). Both were raised Catholic.
Where does that put me? Oh that’s right…. drinking. ;)
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Jos,
Cheers indeed! :)
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A welcome drop or two
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ChrisW, in reply to
And a lovely drop it is too, Nora. It seems gravid with many more drops nested within. I was not quick enough to capture the one or two drops (almost numero-literally truly) that fell at my place yesterday.
All I have is a little summer dry to offer....Small portion of a restored 1869 headstone, relaid nearly prone on the grave of a man named Brown, his name outlined in what had been luxuriant green moss after the wet of January to August, now ...
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Jos,
Very apt now is our Mr Brown! Very nicely seen!
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ChrisW, in reply to
Very apt now is our Mr Brown!
Just as long as we're clear no reference intended to our host Mr Brown ...
And, being a little sensitive on such things myself, I'm confident the commemorated Mr Brown died without known offspring and hence descendants today.Here's this morning's view from my seat through the kitchen window - slightly wider version than that almost 6 months ago a few days after the spring equinox posted on the Spring thread. Now a few days before the autumn equinox, I wouldn't say 50 shades of green has changed to ditto brown, but the poplar forest just touching the skyline is starting to yellow. No sign of rain in those clouds.
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Shades more obvious in the late afternoon light.
It's much drier a little inland of Gisborne. -
Norwester, but even so, getting warm enough for mass Tai Chi lessons on the square outside the library.
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An udder drop from the other day
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Rain drops beyond measure this afternoon, briefly recordable on part of the art installation on my doorstep.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Rain drops beyond measure this afternoon
A little bit'a pitta patta.
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Bumble
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Cat thread? Summer thread? Cat thread?.....
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Cecelia, in reply to
ahhhh
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Crazy weather up here. Bad smog chased away by a sandstorm two weeks ago, raining mud last Tuesday, Sunday and Monday it was nice and warm, then a big snow last night. When she got up my wee one couldn't stop saying "xià dà xuě le" (big snow fell) or "xià bái xuě le" (white snow fell) - yes, at this stage her Chinese is much better than her English.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Walnut fruits generally form in threes - two at least of these ones getting ready to drop clean nuts.
Extree! Extree! Read all about it!
Update on the walnut yield – one of these three has given forth its walnut to drop on the smooth mown grass below.And update on the single walnut today –
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ChrisW, in reply to
Autumn is like a perhaps hand
which comes surprisingly
predictably out of a green
globe offering
me a nut
so brown
and promising
the kernel of truth perhaps
within the hand is holding
the universe in a nutshell.(with apologies to e.e. cummings and thanks to JacksonP)
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
within the hand is holding
the universe in a nutshellthanks for the step-by-step walnut development - will you catch it the moment it drops?
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Belated, but this taken from the grassy knoll, lantern festival.
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Obligatory Auckland sunset photograph.
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OK, summer's over...
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ChrisW, in reply to
will you catch it the moment it drops?
Heh! My surveillance technology is not up to much, but I do have an outside light, and lo, the hand is empty. And I have a rarely used flash for camera, clearly identifying the unheld walnut gently tossed in petanque style. Perhaps associated with another brief millimetre rain shower before sunset and subsequent wind.
Like pitter-patter for rain, 'petanque' is just right for falling walnuts - it's the sound of one dropping from high in the tree, hitting a branch on the way to the ground.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
OK, summer’s over…
So, if it's gotta be over, that's a great reason to welcome in Autumn! Just the one, or a whole stash?
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Nice – like a good sorbet.
Same clouds earlier in the arvo and in the golden evening light….
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