Friday, February 25, 2022

Brighter later, hazelnut and rainbow cups.

1. It has been a very wet morning -- but the line of blue sky advances from the west.

2. Hazelnut milk in my coffee.

3. To learn that in central Europe they sometimes turn up concave Iron Age coins called 'rainbow cups' because of the way they shine after rain on ploughed earth.


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Instead, autumn colour and the fruit we have.

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