Tropical Tiki Torches. Created from a night photo I took during a Hawaiian Luau. What is more romantic than swaying palm trees and lighted tiki torches against the evening sky?
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.
Strong-woman Katharina Brumbach aka Katie Sandwina (1884-1952) breaking some chains while surrounded by men dressed as roman soldiers. Part of her act in the early 1920s.
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 🧸
How the Internet really works! We’re in an old area with utilities in the alleys behind the houses. If they’d realized 20 years ago what was going to happen, it would have been cost-effective to dig the trenches and bury all this stuff back then. Kind of astonishing that it works at all, just like the rest of the Internet.
There are two competing “fibre” ISPs in our alley and still we in Canada pay among the world’s highest prices for bandwidth. Where’s that invisible hand…
Two versions of the same photo of two sibling Canada Goslings. Quite liked the Gosling on the right of shots tongue, so cropped it to produce the first image.