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2013-05-08 19:50:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hey look! My pals from The Butterworth Gallery are here on G+ now too!

Wonderful people, wonderful art from Howard and Mary (of which we own an original work (glow! glow!), and a wonderful setting!

2013-05-08 11:07:51 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

#wordlessonwednesday   #wordlesswednesday   #wordless   #word  

2013-05-07 12:10:53 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

ROYGBIV concluded

This is my craaazy 'rainbow' to conclude +Susan Porter's brilliant short ROYGBIV 2.0 project. This is no more or less than the six individual colour images stacked and cropped - lazy, but fun!

Can I just say THANKS! to Susan for running this thing - I look forward to the next one, in whatever form it takes, and GREAT WORK to everyone who had a go!

2013-05-06 21:36:24 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Looks like a job for Leucadia Cyclery...
Or
I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like...

A #lyricallyinspired   #monochromemonday  shot. I've been practicing - every morning, after I get dropped off for work, I get about 15 or 20 minutes to wander around a small wooded area trapped between the industrial area of town I work in, and the main road that brings traffic into it. The place is a mess, littered, uncared for, lots of broken trees, old ropes, and ... a bike. Its a great place to wander around snapping, trying out new things, and I've not yet been disturbed by anyone.

#lyricallyinspired  is curated by +Jason Jakober, +Tara Romasanta, and +Amanda Recker 
#MonochromeMonday (+Monochrome Monday) is curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge, +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller

Bike repair by+Ju... more »

2013-05-06 18:35:05 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

roygbiVIOLET

Penultimate day in +Susan Porter's excellent and fun #roygbiv  2.0, and today we have violet. Tomorrow's final will be 'rainbow' - wish us luck!

Also sharing for #macromonday  (but sadly not the subtheme of Kitchen Objects), curated by the awesome foursome, +Kerry Murphy, +Kelli Seeger Kim, +Jennifer Eden and +Jake Easley.

2013-05-04 22:00:40 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

I'm ready for my close-up now...

Ginger strikes a pose, at 0730 on Thursday morning. 

For  #caturday  curated by +Christophe Friedli, +Lee Daniels, +Shantha Marie Fountain and +Cicely Robin Laing, and for
#onecatadaykeepsthedoctoraway , curated by +Sandra Deichmann 

Speaking of which ... Ginger's owners are away for the weekend - I've got to go over and feed her. Caviar and finest creme fresh? Not likely! 

2013-05-04 09:41:55 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

LIstening to Saturday Sun, and hanging with my son on a sunny Satuday

Still got one under the weather wee boy, who I'm trying to persuade to come outside to get some rays ... he's not having it so far!

Its  May the 4th, supposedly Star Wars day, but I've pretty much had it with that way, way oversold franchise. 

More importantly, is GREEN day in the #roygbiv  challenge - I've got one I like from last weekend, but hopefully I'll get a chance to have another go :)

Hope you all have a nice one, and hope your head isn't too sore after those V&T's +Jules Falk Hunter :)

2013-05-03 16:34:17 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

roYELLOWgbiv

If its Friday, it must be time for yellow on +Susan Porter's #roygbiv

And if its yellow flowers, it must be time for +Tamara Pruessner's #floralfriday.

Here's hope you all have a great weekend - our's is off to a dodgy start, with a trip to A&E for a bag head bang for one child (he is OK), and then another call from nursery saying second child has been sick - a homely weekend I think!

2013-05-02 07:32:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

rORANGEygbiv 2

For +Susan Porter's current round of #roygbiv , here is Ginger from next door enjoying a scratch and the sun, last Friday morning.

2013-05-01 19:48:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

ROYGBIV everywhere!

It would be this week that I do a photo challenge called #roybiv  
It would be this week Boards of Canada, who have a song called 'ROYGBIV', announced their first album since 2005.

2013-05-02 07:22:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Added photos to ROYGBIV 2.0.

2013-04-29 21:38:02 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

His Not-so-Worried Shoes

And I welcome the week with a #lyricallyinspired  shot for #shoesmonday .

This is the first pair of special shoes Logan got, super-stiff to help him with his balance and walking/running. They made a really big difference to him, he loved them, and he got so confident in them. So now these ones are worn out, we've got him three new pairs to replace them. We'll keep these ones until the Drs. get a look at how they've worn, which will help them decide if he'll continue to be OK with the shoes, or need leg braces. But, despite the lovely but sad song, these shoes really have made us a little bit less worried.

The shot was staged, at the weekend, the song is a cover version, original by Daniel Johnston, cover by Karen O & The Kids, from the soundtrack to the movie 'Where The WIld Things Are'.

Worried Shoes... more »

2013-04-29 18:26:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Tomorrow's Harvest
June 10th 2013
BoC are back!

2013-04-29 10:25:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Not a description of our youngest child, but the new album from the wonderful Flaming Lips.

2013-04-28 21:15:55 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The only way is up, baby!

Since this is my first share to #selfiesunday  I thought I'd start at the start of the day, just after 6am, when I rock my squinty eye, Wayne Coyne hair look the best. 

Can only get better, eh folks?

+Selfy Sunday  curated by  +Levi Moore +Jeff Smith

2013-04-28 21:03:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Don't Stop, Tick tock, the SUN BLOWS UP TODAY!

A very loud (in both the music and colour sense!) entry, a new one from Oklahoma City's favourite sons, The Flaming Lips.

Sharing for all of you, especially those of us waiting for the end of this Boards Of Canada puzzle, and off course for +Matt Shalvatis and #SundayMusicMania

And super especially for +Jules Falk Hunter and her husband for the bike advice!

2013-04-26 21:00:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

BoC serious. Five out of Six number sequences are known, and at a record store in London, something is happening.

2013-04-26 20:58:01 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

A former religious community, out in the country

A #lyricallyinspired   #coloursonfriday  from me today.

Taken at the Tomnaverie Stone Circle, in North East Scotland. Possibly my favourite place. Used in ancient times as a religious place, where agricultural deities were worshipped at significant times of the year.

The song is a year 2000 release from probably my favourite electronic music artists Boards Of Canada (who are actually two brothers from Edinburgh). The song, 'In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country', refers to something a lot more recent, but even as a non-religious person, this is a very special place. If you like this track, Google for the BoC 'Record Store Day Incident', and see just how obsessive BoC fans can be, trying to figure out cryptic clues the band are putting around just now - making us all think they may be about torelea... more »

2013-04-25 20:14:06 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

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2013-04-25 07:57:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Lunar Eclipses
Image Credit & Copyright: Igor Vin'yaminov
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130425.html

The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section and is most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. But the complete cross section is larger than the Moon's angular size in the stages of an eclipse. Still, this thoughtful composite illustrates the full extent of the circular shadow by utilizing images from both partial and total eclipses passing through different parts of the umbra. The images span the years 1997 to 2011, diligently captured with the same optics, from Voronezh, Russia. Along the bottom and top are stages of the partial lunar eclipses from September 2006 and August 2008 respectively. In the rightside bottom image, the Moon is entering the umbra for the total eclipse of... more »

2013-04-24 21:20:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

One Very Important Thought

"Now that the show is over, and we have jointly exercised our constitutional rights, we would like to leave you with one very important thought: Some time in the future, you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so-called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program. If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights - no one else will do it for you. thank you."

Boards of Canada - One Very Important Thought

2013-04-24 13:47:09 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

#wordlessonwednesday   #wordlesswednesday   #wordless   #word  

2013-04-23 22:58:13 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

So, can I be the last person here to say Happy Birthday to my wonderful wife, Juliana Kerr, who catches up with me today. Only just making it, after a late night dash to pick up a still unwell and unhappy wee boy from grannies house. These are the things that we'll remember with a smile later :) 

Happy Birthday, Juju.

2013-04-23 12:30:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

BoC ... serious?

Well, lets hope ... probably my favourite electronic music group, Board Of Canada, may be dropping typically cryptic hints that their first album since 2005 may be appearing this year.

Worth a read to see what you make of it ... a single 12inch single sold in New York, with 40 seconds of music on it, and a 6 number 'clue'? Another six number 'clue' displayed for all of two frames in a Youtube video? More clues in edits of video descriptions? Its pretty wild stuff.

Half of me loves this kind of puzzle, its a great (and, for this shy band) very apt way of getting a bit of hype. The other half of me, though JUST. WANTS. THE. NEW. ALBUM.

If there is one, and this isn't another hoax (there have been loads of hoxes about a new BoC album in the last few years).

2013-04-22 20:49:09 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Well, that was not the long weekend I had in mind.
I didn't have any sort of long weekend in mind.

The bugs that have given both kids crazy fever (up to and over 40 degrees at times), the most blocked up noses they have ever had, the nastiest cough they have ever had, sickness, and the inability to sleep for more than 45 minutes, have sorted out an unplanned, unwanted, and unpleasant day off today.

Antibiotics on the go now, so we'll see...

Oh yeah, and I've still not been visited (#nothuntsmack)

Here's hoping!

2013-04-19 21:29:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Oh-oh.

Pride cometh before a fall, yeah?
Bad luck comes in threes, yeah?

I was proud when I saw that photo in that paper, which was published yesterday. Since then, Logan has gotten a really nasty cold (1), my wife's ankle, which she broke badly 13 months ago, has swollen up a lot tonight (2), and I think the washing machine is broken (3).

Oh heck ... I'm on standby as well (when am I NOT on standby, though, eh readers?).

Onwards!

2013-04-19 18:48:30 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

You've probably seen this pheasant before...

I've shared this 'scene' a few times now, and I thought I was done with it, until this week it was picked up as a featured photo in our local paper 'The Deeside Piper'. I admit I did send it to them, when they made a picture plee, but didn't hear back until I saw in the paper today. 

Happy Friday, indeed, although that pheasant looks more shocked every time I see him :)

Sharing this, and for the last time for #colorsonfriday , +ColorsOnFriday curated by +Britta Rogge  and +Karsten Meyer.

Have a great weekend everyone!

2013-04-18 20:50:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Another brick has fallen from 'The Wall'

R.I.P. Storm.

2013-04-18 20:35:15 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Springtime on 'The Technical Section'

So called, because the road I was on the edge of when I took the 8 shots that make this up, is cycled on by a colleague of mine, and he refers to this several mile stretch as the 'technical section', due to the twisty, turny, hilly nature of it.

This area is south of my home town of Banchory, and its very undeveloped (which is just fine!). This panorama takes in hills near and far, many of the better known Deeside hills included (Kerloch, Clachnaben, Morven, and Scolty to name a few).

Its not a great photo technically - it was handheld and on a very short timescale (I had the kids with me!). But by looking, I know exactly how I'll aim to improve it next time :)

Click and zoom in ... see how many merge lines you can spot :)

Sharing for +Close2Home  curated by  +Brett Sivits +David Pond+Reb... more »

2013-04-17 21:17:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hi everybody! 

And welcome to that time of the night!
The time when I know I've had a good idea about doing something, or have to something, or wanted to do something, but can't remember what that something was!

Tune in later, when, on the way to bed, I remember what that thing was, and decide it can wait until tomorrow!

Bye-bye for now!

2013-04-18 12:16:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Added photos to Telephoto.

2013-04-17 10:50:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

#wordlessonwednesday