Set Up Like A Deck Of Cards

About 30 minutes ago, the sky just turned this amazing colour.

I took this a couple of weeks ago, after it had rained for the first time in a while.  I noticed that there were drops of water falling from the roof of a shed onto an old brick on the ground and realised that the hole you can see in the brick had been made by the same drops over the last few years.

Nothing special, I know.  Basic physics and geology and it’s probably not on the same level as, say, the Grand Canyon but for whatever reason, I liked it.

I spent about ten minutes trying to capture a splash and this was the best I got.

Look at this twig!  It must have snapped off from higher up, probably when a bird tried to land on it, fell down, and somehow managed to hook itself on another branch before it hit the ground.  That’s pretty impressive, even for a twig.

These swans were huge! The one in the background seemed friendly enough but the one nearest to me was a mean son of a bitch and kept hissing and giving me the evil eye. I wanted to take a photo lower to the ground, but I figure it’s easier to run away from a standing position than a crouching one. This isn’t athletics.

There’s a bird round here that, somewhere between midnight and 7am, likes to attack windscreen wipers and tear off the rubber blades. I know it’s a bird because you can see its dirty fricking bird footprints all over the windscreen when you get in the car. I think it’s either that crow or magpie (it’s one bird, I’m just not sure what kind it is) that is always hanging around.

It’s happened three times in the last week. Twice, I’ve got in my car in the morning, turned my wipers on and the rubber blades have just flopped around, but were still attached. The other time, the rubber followed the wiper arm up and then just stuck on the windscreen when the arm came down again.

I’ve tried this method of protection the last three nights and it’s been successful so far. If this doesn’t work, my next plan involves violence.

When I snapped this photo the other night, I swear those clouds in the middle looked like three elephants walking trunk-to-tail.

Now I’m not so sure.

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I really enjoyed this article, and I learned from the comments that the famous ‘Earthrise’ photo should actually be rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise, so that the moon is on the right.

These guys have been coming back every spring/summer for the last five years now. They’re practically pets. I call them Ike and Tina. Tina wears the pants. Ike just watches her back and picks up scraps whenever he can.

After I took this photo, Tina kept running towards me and gently bumped into my leg. I think she thought I had food.