ABOUT a Kite that can’t Fly and a Snail that Can ! And watching the Moon GOoooo….

….. towards floaty music for the night time car ride home:
‘I believe I can fly’

2014 05 10 i wish I could fly Kite jpg sig(squeeze for a kite)
The kite has been stuck up there since the end of  last summer and has been there for all to see in the bare branches all winter. No one can get it down, although we did try. It has seen every sunrise from there ever since. So weighing the restraints of being stuck up there against sitting in a prize place; where it can play up there with the moon and the stars and even count cars; the kite can’t be that unhappy! So there it stays. We photograph it from time to time and hang it up on a white wall and compare leaves (or no leaves at all) and admire the blue against  blue and change the colours generally. It has become a project; a piece of art outside the bathroom! Or, the kite can be seen from afar as a delightful sign post out on the road which shows everyone where we live near a pole. It still wishes it could fly though…..
2014 0509 UFO or the snail with aspirations to fly jpg sig(press to see the snail a bird and slime)
……and here’s another one who thinks it can fly, but who  cannot  so has decided to settle for sliding up glass. A snail. Its not the first time he has done this (he is well photographed but is not hanging on walls yet). If you have ‘squeezed’ for the bird you will see that the snail  is flying higher than the bird on the line! Or at least it looks like that. The snail either believes he can fly or  he is just an act,  kidding everyone. Actually he is due to disappear ; when some other bird will fly at the window and eat him rather dramatically….

We all really wanted  to believe that the snail could fly. Its seriously good  fun to play really clever and funny tricks with the camera, when it rains and the house is full…Someone wanted to call him a UFO or maybe a flying owl  but we all  got stuck on calling him a  snail, a snail who can fly  although  this one was brought down to earth as mentioned above fairly quickly……..

Little Pony was found in the bathroom, too late. And one pink sock was found just as the car left…… The moon, must have started to move, as fast as they were, just then…..
Gill Diary
Below: Song for all kites and snails (visiting or otherwise)
who watch the moon go fast (in cars).
GillMcG copyright 2014.for FH/SKYProject

But remember to watch out for the big bird who will eat you if you keep sliding up glass.

Moon Song: The Movie. [Trailer]

2014 15 04 Moon Song. The Movie. Trailer Jpg sig
Moon: Not her again! She bought that camera to take close ups of me and she is so bad she has never taken a good one yet, even when I smile!

Clicking noises

House: Yikes! She caught me. What-ever do I look like? Stay very still behind me Moon, perhaps she will go away in a while.

Silence for a moment

Moon: Has she gone?

Her by the gate: How does this blooming thing work? I can’t see a thing!

Followed by hurried footsteps and a door shutting then silence at least from out here

House: She’s gone! You can come out now moon! Perhaps she’ll give up and we’ll never see her again!

to be continued [Ha Ha!]
Gill McGrath [2014 15 04] nawripomo 2014
A very bad rhyme (it sort of rhymes!) for a very bad photo

A: for alphabet sky

No car, so had to use the bus today.
Was able to stare at the yellow fields across the way…..
And as I sat
I promised me to walk there on another sunny day.
Perhaps.

Then I looked up and
Saw the sky, specially blue and clear and
Tiny little air planes  were busy painting there..
I watched a line become a kiss; an X against the blue !
So with promises of more shapes to come I……
Fiddled for my camera

But it wasn’t there!
So I missed the shot of an upside down V turning into an A!
Gill McGrath

Press link here for an A in the sky which was caught on camera
by
Alex Raphael

sculpture: supernova

supernova
Message from Ground Control: Rearrangement of nova to supernova ‘…..the expanding shock waves from supernova explosions can trigger the formation of new stars….'(says wikipedia)….. Ok! The kids rearranged the crib again! Come Twelfth Night, crib is in box. Everything’s OK!

HOT NEWS. Batman puts kitty back! And averts disaster.

HOT NEWS. Batman puts kitty back! And averts disaster.

The electric wires called ‘cat’ were ‘live and dangerous’ after all. If touched it would have killed, the man said.But it had taken three days to convince emergency that they must come and fix it; that we must not be ignored. The falling clump of wires….’the cat’….. was now reachable and interesting enough for any child at the height of a six year old. But it took three intense days to convince the call centre that the wires that had now come down in driving rain on new years night, and had a yellow notice (still strung onto it) which said dangerous, live wires! We nearly began to believe things were OK, that we might be over egging the situation; that the wires must be safe after all. We were even told in cool tones that people without electricity took preference at this time. But things weren’t OK. Someone could have been electrocuted. Batman said so. We thank Batman and assistant who came and fixed it and who couldn’t believe how long our dangerous wait had been!

You can see what the ‘cat’ looked like before it came down, if you press the small thumbnail in ‘dark side of light’ (page 1 )and you can also see what the yellow notice said ( close up) in the ‘ the cat has gone'(page 2). Both found at the top in the introduction bar at: dark side of light

nova: bright star

nova

The nativity set bought from the Avon lady, many, many moons ago, has come out once again in all its glory. Everything is there; the three kings are just out of the picture. The scene is as fresh and bright as the first day, although many little hands have rearranged the scene over the years. I wonder which piece will go for a walk this year? Probably the donkey again!