‘don’t forget your brolly dear….!’

2015 02 16 birds roof strut jpg sig 7.15 am ~ ‘…it looks like rain’

2015 02 19 clouds  7.19 jpg sig7.19 am ~ ‘ but there’s a sign of sun!’

2015 02 19 pink again it must be rain jpg sig 7.20 am ~ and so the morning came

2015 02 19 pole waiting for morning purple jpg sig
7.21 am ~ on a breeze

2015 02 16  19 10 rain on road  jpg sig 10 am ~ and then the rain

2015 02 16 19 10 road rain 10 jpg sig ~ and then some more

2015 02 16 19 10 rain today jpg sig
~ and more ~
Gill McGrath© Diary. February 19.so mostly rain. no sun today.

Three birds caught in setting sun (if you look close)

2014 06 06 sunsetting up street jpg sigDiary 9.00 pm
Evening: Its thick cloud and this is the only sliver of light in the sky, down the street. If you press the picture you might find three birds (two fly on the orange, one sits on a chimney). One shot no hanging about.
And just as I thought the cloud was too thick to see the moon just yet….at 9.24 pm I just noticed it high up but right outside the living room window (at the back of the house). Hi moon! Nice one! Night night!
2014 06 06moon tonight jpg sig

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.

By the lines singing mellow yellow

2014 04 08  late rise 2633 6.43 jpg sig
6.30 am.
Bright morning
Sky featureless and cloudless
Thought I had missed the sun
Put the kettle on, made the coffee

6.31 am.
Took a walk to the power lines
Saw the sun
Returned with gold inside my head

6.35 am.
In the kitchen
Drank the coffee

By nine, up there, cotton clouds are floating on blue

Diary. Gill McGrath today