Photo Memory of the Week
Cloud of the Week
Ladies and gentlemen, meet this week's cloud(s). I stumbled across it while walking to a clematis-site sighting from the previous day. By the time I got somewhere without any intervening tree branches, the cloud and the colours had moved on. Forget carpe diem: this is more like arripe occasionem.
Place: Calgary
Posted: 2026 Oct 09Read my posts about clouds: here and here
Read knowledgeable stuff about clouds: here
Music of the Week
Quotes of the Week
Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answersIn tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.This could be our last winter, it could be manyMore, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:Do what you must, be wise, cut your vinesAnd forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair.
- Horace's Ode I:11Posted: Oct 08
Tag Archives: Trains & Boats & Planes
A Personal Best
Welcome to the Geezer Olympics: Some things are not competitions. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Landscapes, Sports and Exercise
Tagged Aging, Trains & Boats & Planes, Water
10 Comments
Damn Wow Hey
Time well spent in a parking lot. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff
Tagged Miscellany, Reflections, Trains & Boats & Planes
12 Comments
Anything You Can Do
Why Annie was wrong. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Through History, You are Here
Tagged History, Technology, Trains & Boats & Planes
8 Comments
Waving to Ken
A human face on the system, indeed. Continue reading
Salt Spring Vistas – Part 1
Canada: full of amazing places. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Beaches, Trains & Boats & Planes, Trees, Water
8 Comments
The Boat that Won WWII
Another famous guy I’d never heard of. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Thinking Broadly, Through History
Tagged History, Military, Trains & Boats & Planes
Comments Off on The Boat that Won WWII
Welcome Aboard
The joy of travel. Continue reading
Glasgow Central Station, Glasgow
Early morning at Britain’s 11th busiest train station. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff
Tagged Buildings, Trains & Boats & Planes
8 Comments
Security Theatre?
Somehow I don’t feel any safer. Continue reading
Posted in Officialdom, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Critical Thinking, Trains & Boats & Planes
12 Comments