byslantedlight | Entries tagged with moon

The clocks went back last night, and I had my covid booster yesterday, so I'm feeling a bit dazed with the world so far today. Solution? Post to lj! *g* I actually went to bed early (for me - just before midnight), so it rather threw me to wake up at 5.45am-ish, having actually had nearly seven hours sleep (again, that's my normal - in fact pretty good for me!), but not feeling quite ready to get up yet, so I didn't... and when I did it was still before 7am!!

I had my jab around 2.30pm yesterday, and my arm didn't even start aching until not long before I went to bed - but then I couldn't sleep on my left side all night! *headdesk* I think the ache is fading now. I have a slight headache (barely counts as a headache, but there) and feel a bit drippy, but that could be me rather than the shot... *g* Well, it's probably the shot, but it's also Sunday, so I can roll with it. *g*

Here's the last day of the year when sunset was around 6pm...

It is looking a bit autumn-y in the village... *g* Yesterday was ridiculous though - when I finally got up (after working until about 4am *headdesk*) I'd missed half a day that was warm, with an amazing balmy breeze - my favourite kind of day! It's cooler today, but still not October-cold. Absolutely no need to put the heating on yet...

Some pics from the day before (the first one's for

tinturtle - green fields *g*):

Okay, clearly those trees are doing the autumn thing...!

And finally - a very fun surprise when I finally sorted out how to hang the big mirror my last landlady gave me. It only had a hook to hang it vertically, and I wanted it horizontal, so I was peeling back the tape to see what the wood was like for attaching things to, and...

How cool is that?! I have a film-star mirror! I can't at all work out what the other bits of writing mean, but I'd like to think it was hints to the film it had been in. *g* That middle word that's a bit cut off just before "Sold" looks like "THARAT"...

And now I'm feeling a bit droopy as well as drippy, so I think I'm going to take a break from sitting upright!

How are you doing? *g*

The forecast was right for a change - we did have (actually, are having) thunderstorms tonight! *vbg*

And then this isn't a great picture, because it was on a hand-held long-exposure camera phone, but it began to rain as I took the lightning vid (obv. not photos!) and I went in - I popped out a while later though, and the skies had cleared enough for the moon to come out, shining on the track up the hill, surrounded by dramatic clouds - and then lightning flashed again, on the other side, and I'm pretty sure that's the pink you can see in this pic. *vbg*

I came in again to finish off some Job 2 prep and head to bed - and the storm is ongoing. It quietened down, but in fact it must have circled around, because there was lightning over the cow shed side of the house a few minutes ago - sheet lightning this time, where the yard was lit up in that amazing electric blue as I watched... I should have been in bed an hour ago, but I do love a storm, even a relatively gentle one like this one... *g*

Tomorrow I am promised snow, but today the world began with mist and a touch of ice and frost again. *g* I watched out my window as the trees kept appearing and disappearing in the mist, and then it began to lift...

Then the sun came out, and it was like being on holiday all of a sudden! More ice bubbles than you usually see on holiday, but so fresh and pretty.

And there are snowdrops along the river!

ETA - and here's what it looks like just before midnight tonight. A halo around the moon! 2021-01-23 07MoonHalo

Google tells me that a halo around the moon means that snow is coming! Or rain... Hmmn!

Grey and wet today, until finally brightening up just before dark.

So I went for a quick walk - and found the halloween spirit alive and well in the village!

And also the rather more natural October-halloween world now that the clocks have gone back...

And the moon - gorgeous moon. *g*

Look what happens when I have two days off work... honestly! Let's catch up with Thursday and Friday's happy-making things.

Thursday
At one end of the day, another breakfast outside, under the sound of songbirds, and my landlords colourful flower bed.

And then at the other end of the day, wondering if I could catch the not-quite-perfectly-full-pink-supermoon, going out at 10pm when it was supposed to rise, realising there were hills in the way, and waiting... and waiting... and there it was.
Then walking back the other way, to see Venus shining so brightly above the houses...