Even though night mode on the iPhone is capable of seeing pretty faint stars, some times it’s nice to have a bit of cloud to block them out & make the constellations more visible 🤷♂️
Here’s the Ursa Major (the plough or big dipper) over the Peterstal, with its famous “arc to Arcturus” along the handle to the left 🧸
Finally fitted the new 11-32 cassette & long cage rear derailleur to my bike, hopefully giving me a fighting chance of making it up some of the fiendishly steep hills around our new home 😬✌️
New chain follows tomorrow after degreasing & waxing 🥸
In other news, the FusionDrive of our 2015 family iMac croaked today when upgrading the OS. Have plenty of backups & am trying recovery now, but a whole new machine may be needed 😕
You buy them food, keep their water supply clean, keep quiet in your garden to avoid disturbing them, and when you pop out with your camera they just turn away from you.
Right. I absolutely have stuff to do that isn't sitting here so I will just add this better photo of the windy spot, as the compression on the gif above definitely killed the view a bit.
Oooh, the indestructible St John's Wort in the garden is budding. It's growing in the wrong place (hence I know it's indestructible) but it is very photogenic.
The Apostles, St. Andrews Cathedral, Honolulu. Currently, 6 of the 12 are featured. I could only find the names of 4, Andrew, Peter, John & James. If you know the other two, please let me know.
Je me suis mis en route assez tôt ce jour-là (4h du matin, mais il faisait déjà jour) pour aller sur le cratère du volcan Hverfjall, afin d’éviter 2 animaux : les humains et les moucherons 😅
Pari gagné puisqu’à 5h du mat, j’étais réellement seul sur le cratère.