.... for Flower Friday. Many thanks Anni for hosting.

We were up early this morning as we thought the gardener was coming for our first maintenance visit, but it turned out there was a communications breakdown and she wasn't coming until this afternoon.

Our valley lies between highish (8,000-ish feet) mountains to sea level, and we can usually see the coming weather as it rolls in from one or the other direction. These are the mists this morning. In ...

As we travelled down the Mekong today we went ashore at a small remote Lao village (another view in extra). Until recently the only transport in and out was by river, though there is now a road which ...

The day started off well with Penny informing us that Alan's tracking hoist in his bedroom wasn't working. D contacted the company who services the hoist and they said someone would be out before ...

We leave Meols, waving goodbye but knowing we’ll see the little family again on Friday when we meet in Norfolk. The journey down to Nantwich - via Cheshire Oaks - is dire as we drive through rain of ...

First of all, apologies for not having time to even look at journals yesterday. I probably won’t have time today either, but I really will try to catch up, even if it’s just with stars. Thanks so much ...

Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.

From the Sun to the Moon Following yesterday's sunrise blip it was a Hunter's moon capture this morning.

It is a heavily overcast day here, unusual for us, so the fall colors really popped. Laney enjoyed the change of locale and totally ignored the few dogs we came across. We went twice as far as we ...

It's been a much lovelier day today but I was kitchen-sorting for much of it. I did go for a gorgeous sunset walk in the harbour at low tide, though :)) ...

A bright and breezy day and bit of a catch up with stuff that needed doing at home. And an enjoyable browse through the entries for this week's TT on the theme of Water. It is soooo hard to chose the ...