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Tonight is Walpurgis Night. It commemorates the 8th-century Saint Walpurga, but blends Christian, pagan, and folklore traditions, featuring bonfires, dancing, and the symbolic driving away of evil spirits and winter.
The usual thing to do is to light a massive bonfire to drive off the evil spirits and witches. I don't have the space for that. so I lit a candle instead.
I last celebrated this festival many years ago close to the peak of Brocken with my then hiking partner. It was a very special night. It's important to make memories while you're able.
The weather improved by midday so it was nice to walk to Williamson Park and have a bacon bun for lunch. Here's the Williamson Memorial.
In 1840 there was a massive survey and census carried out. This is a benchmark that was made as a permanent marker for locating survey instruments.
At the same time in Aotearoa/New Zealand many tribes (but not all) signed a treaty with the Crown.
These naturally shaped stones are cobbles. Not many deliveries along here these days, judging by the amount of plants.
I haven't uploaded my 2021 fireworks yet, so here are some manipulations from an old 2015 shot from my Olympus EM-10. These are from a mix of Android apps including Mirror Lab and Chroma Lab. I love the bright colors and neat abstracts I get from using these apps.
An iron staple fixes a cracked lintel in a fireplace.
Removing and replacing the whole structure would have been costly and dangerous. Here's an old repair that's doing a great job.
A trainee makes my coffee. I like the way this is simple and the coffee tasted exceptional. The milk had developed its optimum sweetness.
This is such an odd posting slot; it's above head height. Posties must hate it, even if it looks nice.
Autumn brings grey skies and colorful trees. This cherry has brought so much joy over the last year.
In the field were the delightful lambs and their mothers. They are painted with numbers to indicate their owner, when grazing on shared or common land.
...need not be boring.
Cooked with a chopped onion and garlic, with garam masala. Finished with sundried tomatoes and sliced gherkin.
An easy, tasty and nutritious tea after a busy day.
It's a quiet day at home; housework and such like.
If you want a laugh, it's just taken me the best part of an hour to make the bed with my new linen. I was baffled not to be able to find the opening for the quilt cover. I was about to get my sewing kit out and open a seam ... and then I found some buttons.
The stripes run horizontally, not vertically, as I had expected. So confused. More signs of cognitive decline? Or just an example of aesthetic dissonance?
If you are also challenged by longitude and latitude, have a read of this. It's excellent:
My first picture shot in Raw format and developed with Snapseed.
You can see how the season is changing from the storm glass and buoyant floats in the thermometer.
But there's still one more flower bud waiting to bloom.
It has been delightfully warm lately, but my fridge is full and my veggies are wilting ... so rather than let them spoil, I pickled them. A strange mixture of Korean radish (mu), carrots and red onions. The liquor is a mixture of water, vinegar, salt, sugar, and spices (a random assortment).
I bought the mu from the market - I was amused by its name, as it is also the response to a famous Zen koan. I wrestle with it from time to time, having been introduced to it by a Catholic nun, Sister Elaine MacInnes, who was also a Zen roshi (master).
I don't get so many photos of Bella as she's so feisty and barely sits still. She does most of her sleeping at night, she probably thinks she's human.
Cobbles in the rain seem to be as slick as the back of a giant lizard coming out of the river.
Or maybe I just have an over-active imagination.