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| Sunday, 29-Oct-2006 23:26 |
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Summertime has officially ended
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How did the orange get up there?
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The clocks went back an hour last night marking the official end of British Summer Time.
Now it's getting dark around 5 instead of 6. The long, dark evenings approach.
To compensate slightly for the early dusk, it was a beautiful autumn day today. Makes a change after all the rain we've been having the last couple of weeks.
A few random pics from a walk to the park this afternoon.
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| Sunday, 29-Oct-2006 02:04 |
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Welcome to the pumpkin poll...
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Tonight we played with a pumpkin...
... and autumnal fruit...
There was a pumpkin
in a bowl in my friend's kitchen
among the apples and clementines.
It was a very photogenic pumpkin
but the light wasn't right in the kitchen
- too flat and dull -
so I moved it to the living room
in front of the mirror
on top of the marbles board
beside the laughing buddha
(and phone books and cigar box).
Took photos
but the white bowl wasn't right.
The green one,
shaped like a cabbage,
would be better
but, being a soup bowl,
it was too deep and
pumpkin and fruit were rearranged
in the autumnal red bowl...
Which do you like best?
(let me know
in a comment below...
(It's a pumpkin poll  )
After the photos we squeezed the clementines for a salad dressing and after the salad and the rest of supper watched 3+ hours of Bollywood - Lagaan - highly recommended. The invention of test cricket...
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| Wednesday, 25-Oct-2006 23:06 |
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Umbrellas
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A rainy day in London today.
A couple of street pics taken in Bloomsbury on my way to work this morning.
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| Monday, 23-Oct-2006 19:31 |
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Photo challenge #131: Motion
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One from the archive but not posted here before.
A bit more cheerful than dull, rainy London...
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| Sunday, 22-Oct-2006 22:23 |
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Flying into the dusk
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A second entry for today to finish the balloon pics set. I really have to get back to earth - the working week starts tomorrow!
The most amazing thing about the balloon trip was the randomness. The pilot had no idea where we would be landing until after we took off! It all depended on the wind. We floated East and then when it was nearing the time we needed to land he started checking out a suitable location - needed to be a field not full of animals and with some sort of access for the ground crew in the Land Rover.
After we'd landed (at dusk) we had to help deflate the balloon and pack it up. The ground crew arrived with champagne to toast our trip and we were all presented with a commemorative certificate.
Then we piled into the Land Rover, with some people clinging to the sides of the balloon trailer behind us, for the trip back to the road. One of the fields we had to cross was full of cows. As we opened the gate they started charging towards us but we managed to get through without any of them escaping. Then they started chasing us back up the field towards the exit gate but fortunately they got bored half way and went back to doing whatever it is that cows do in a field at night.
Yes, it was an exhillarating experience and I'd jump at the chance to go again but perhaps its one of those once in a lifetime things...
So that's it from the balloon. Now I have to start taking pics of everyday life in London...
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| Sunday, 22-Oct-2006 21:37 |
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The ground below us
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This entry partly inspired by the stunning Earth from the Air exhibition. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it and get the chance.
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| Saturday, 21-Oct-2006 12:00 |
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...a church and gardens
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We could actually speak to the people on the ground! Sound carries better upwards - less resistance - apparently
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| Friday, 20-Oct-2006 22:10 |
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...and fields...
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This balloon trip happened in June. Took off from a park in Oxford and floated eastward for about 10 miles. It was an incredible experience - so tranquil and quiet just floating over the countryside.
There was a tinge of sadness though as it had been a birthday present to my Mum from some friends on her 80th birthday last July. It was originally scheduled for September last year but postponed because of bad weather. Sadly from early this year my Mum has become very disabled by arthritis and wasn't able to go on the rescheduled trip. She decided that I could go in her place. So thanks, Mum, but I wish you could have been there too.
In answer to Click's comment yesterday - about 210Mb but I'm not posting them all...
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| Thursday, 19-Oct-2006 22:06 |
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Floating over houses...
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Yes, I was up there...
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| Tuesday, 17-Oct-2006 22:48 |
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...hot air balloon
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You got it!
Take off comes next...
No, it's not mine. I live in a small terraced house with a tiny garden. Where would I keep it?!
Not New Mexico either but Oxford, UK...
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