The solstice, the “Sun-standing” at its highest or lowest in our sky, comes relentlessly around every year, so what can be new about it? Continue reading “Whose solstice?”
Category: architecture
Portcullis
Red Mars and white Venus are about to set in the west, and up in the south is red Antares, the heart of the Scorpion.
Semitic Delights
Snow fell yesterday.
Morning Venus over Khajuraho
Venus will reach on Wednesday August 12 i Continue reading “Morning Venus over Khajuraho”
Star clusters and cultural treasures
Here is tomorrow’s sky, four hours after sunset yet still comfortably early in the long winter evening. Continue reading “Star clusters and cultural treasures”
Venus over Mercury
You may, if you have a clear western horizon, be able t spot Venus, as people have been doing. Mercury is much more difficult. Continue reading “Venus over Mercury”
Touches to Notre Dame
This seems to be the only picture I’ve made of Notre Dame, and it shows not much more than the spire that has now vanished.
Notre Dame
The heart of France Continue reading “Notre Dame”
The subtle and the shrill
Repainting Continue reading “The subtle and the shrill”
Return to Dubrovnik
Thirty-four years ago, I put my bicycle together Continue reading “Return to Dubrovnik”