Walk round the Glen Douglas trio on Thursday. Glorious day. blue sky & touch of frost. Very quite a few skylarks singing & the first frog spawn I’ve seen. walkmap with photos & notes..
#SilentSunday
Greenside again. Bright sun to start, a strong gusty wind, dulled down after half an hour. A small tortoiseshell sunning at the side of the track, flew away quickly so no picture. First butterfly of the year. A month earlier than last year. First coltsfoot out too. Ravens enjoying the wind.
A bright almost spring like afternoon at Greenside. First toad of the year, unfortunately squashed by a motorbike on the footpath. A couple of ravens with big crusts of picnic bread by the reservoir.
No it is not, it depends on where you look.
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Flickr
For both it API & Creative commons I’ve long appreciated flickr: Flickring Free & Good Call Flickr.
DS106
DS106– the open online course on digital storytelling that began at the University of Mary Washington and continues as a community of learners across the globe
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Small but mighty.
OpenStreetMap
To many to mention
Things people give away for love & money, small groups, weird ideas, indieWeb, mastodon, micro.blog, open source etc.
For a review of Scrubs in the guardian today.
They should have had a Scottish Doctor 🤣
Read: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng ★★★★★ 📚
Somerset Maugham is collecting material in Malaysia, visiting an old friend & his wife. Layers: a murder, affairs & Sun Yat Sen gathering funds for revolution. Details & the unfolding of all sorts of complexity of characters, relationships & situations involved me completely.
Read: Watershead by Percival Everett ★★★ 📚
Geologist, Robert, becomes involved with fictional Native Americans exposing pollution plot. Mixed in with quotes about geology & legal treaties. Details of Robert childhood & his families involvement with the Black Panthers fits well with the Plata tribe fight for water rights. His awful relationship with a 'mad' girlfriend less so.
Read: Spring by Ali Smith ★★★★★ 📚
It is, she says. You’re right. We are a fairy story. We’re a folk tale. I don’t mean to sound in the least fey. Those stories are deeply serious, all about transformation. How we’re changed by things. Or made to change. Or have to learn to change. And that’s what we’re working on, change. We’re serious, too. She pours him another whisky…
Rilke & Katherine Mansfield appear along the artist Tacita Dean. The declines of television & our treatment of refugees. A cast of characters include a magical 12 year old refugee, an old TV director with an imaginary daughter & a worker at an immigration centre. Rabbit holes galore. Finally a we bit of springlike hope.