Monday, February 08, 2010

Road, return and airship.

Some beautiful things that have caught my eye this week:

1. Road bones. Gleaming black rocks push through the beaten mud surface of an unmade track.

2. I like to come home from a walk just as it starts to rain.

3. We watch a documentary about the Graf Zeppelin's flight round the world in 1929. It is narrated with extracts from the diary of the only woman aboard -- the journalist Lady Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay.

    End at the beginning, whistler and no pressure.

    1. To start the day by finishing a book. 2. I'm sure we knew that the emergency kettle is a whistling one; but we'd forgotten since ...