22°C, clouds, light rain.
Dorset: heading down south tomorrow, so to get in the mood- I made this for FSX flight sim.
The skies are darker
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Monthly Archives: Jul 2008
Swarkstone
27°C, 40% cloud, humid, still air.
Cycling: 71 miles, but at no real pace, it’s too hot to go fast.
Linseed: Hmm, strange, the colours look a bit de-saturated in this photo. Anyway, the last effort was to reduce the slightly flat tones in the legs.
Woodhouses
19°C, hmid & light cloud cover. The wind has dropped.
Dogwalk: what a fab place, Woodhouses is an area of land that is hardly maintained, it’s full of wild grasses, scrub and mixed woodland. Walking there you could imagine that you are on the Kazakh steppe, or the US plains.
Cycle: better today, 36 miles and it didn’t feel hard this time. The biting insects were out in numbers today, I have three bulls-eyes on my legs now.
Linseed: first linseed layer on today, this will take longer to dry enough to do the next layer, so I’ll have to do the other canvas tomorrow.
Cycle: better today, 36 miles and it didn’t feel hard this time. The biting insects were out in numbers today, I have three bulls-eyes on my legs now.
Linseed: first linseed layer on today, this will take longer to dry enough to do the next layer, so I’ll have to do the other canvas tomorrow.
A thousand kisses deep
15°C, windy.
First day of the summer break, in a way the best- the whole holiday is ahead of us .
Leonard Cohen, A Thousand Kisses Deep:
This gave me the shivers the first times I heard it.
Early evening, after work
20°C, NW winds, but warm & dry.
Hammock: after work, ride home and make an early supper. Lie in the hammock to eat, then fall asleep. After dozily waking slowly, watch the blackbirds and a robin not more the 1 metre from my feet. That’s the way to start an evening. I’ve watered the plants and later will put some bird seed out so our avian friends can sleep without rumbling bellys.
Breedon
18°C, 1/2 cloud, light winds, no rain. c=78miles
Cycling: Good long ride today, included a new route to Breedon-on-The-Hill. One week to Summer break.
In your underwear?
16°C, rain showers, plus sunny bits.
Favourite news story: BBC Size FF? You could get a rabbit in there!
Priceless!
The Whalesong is familiar; it must have been sampled innumerable times over the years since it was recorded (1970), Kate Bush, Pink Floyd and all the others.
Whale song
15°C, even more rain. Really big drops that make bubbles in puddles. Endless.
Amazon: awaiting a CD of Whalesong, but I don’t know if I can play it. I fear it may be too melacholic,
or worse…
or worse…
I love this scene, it also seems appropriate today.
Rain
15°C, rain, C. only 26 miles
Look! It’s out there…rain
Only rode 26 miles on the bike today. 4 showers and approaching thunder. I was wetted!
St. Kilda for FSX
26°C, warm sunny day, but rain now.
FSX scenery: I’ve just put together a cluster of islands for FSX: St. Kilda off the west coast of Scotland. There was nothing by default in the Sim, but this has worked a treat. The water texture must have suppressed the 3D mesh because the topography is very convincing. I don’t yet know whether that is a result of the add-on mesh, it may be flat in standard installations. It could probably do with a coastline texture, normally I don’t bother with those but it would give that slightly foamy wave pattern on the rocks.
Micycle 