Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Dab, quiet and constellations.

1. To cheer Bettany up by letting her have a bit of my perfume.

2. The faces children make when they are trying to be very, very quiet.

3. In the centre of the Grove it is dark enough and clear enough to see the stars. Bettany finds Orion,  and I point out Cassiopeia and the Pleiades on Taurus's shoulder, and what is probably Jupiter. I prefer to keep looking up, rather than launch my Stellarium app to check.

Goldfinches, meeting and mackerel.

1. Goldfinches, painted like they're going to war, crowd the bird feeders. 2. We meet my cousin's partner for the first time, and it...