The annual Bouquets to Art event was this week. So many flowers. So little time. So we went twice. Here is a selection. See our Picasa pages for more.
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Salamanders
We seem to be lucky enough to have many families of salamanders in our garden. Whenever we move something we seem to find them underneath. We have set up a rock in an area that shouldn’t get disturbed during the garden renovations and we hoped they would find a home there. But this week some seem to have decamped to underneath our green-waste (compost) bin that had only been in place a couple of days. Managed to grab a quick picture. Here’s the mostly brown one. The other two were all black. If anyone knows which exact type of salamander these are please let us know. There are many types native to California.
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Tangmere
Well hello again. Long time no post. This isn’t really to bring you up-to-date with news, to bang on about the primary campaigns over here in the US (amusing as they are) or even to show you the lovely Sparaxis flowers from the garden (though they are pretty). This is to show you a little snippet of video my sister Jane took last year – thanks Jane! – and show how easy it is to post YouTube videos and show them here.
So please enjoy this short clip 35 second of a great steam engine thundering through Brookwood station on Saturday morning 15th Sept. 2007. The engine is 34067 ‘Tangmere’ an unrebuilt Battle of Britain class loco.
And in other news I’ve just done this too: croquetonfilm.com.
A380 SF fly-by
Last week the test Airbus A380 full of large water bottles (pretending to be passengers) and some lucky Airbus employees (who were actually passengers) flew into SFO at the beginning of Fleet Week. Then on Friday, in between the Blue Angels practice sessions it flew out on its way back to Toulouse as part of its 150 hour engine test.
The A380 flew by at a few thousand feet and did about three loops of the city, admittedly going slowly for the onlookers, but as reported elsewhere it was almost silent. The Blue Angels were much louder and much lower – you couldn’t ignore them wherever you were in the city. Check out the rest of my Flickr photos for more of this huge aircraft.
A380 over SF Originally uploaded by amwadley
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Augusts
A little late, but here, from August 2006 and 2007 are a few pictures from our trips to England. Check out these two pages from last year and this year for more.
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| Lanhydrock 06 | Charlecote 07 |
Wreck of the King Philip
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| Wreck of the King Philip |
A once every couple of decades event. The last time this was visible was in 1983. Here we are 24 years later and we get another chance to see what’s left of this 1878 wreck. The ship only lasted 22 years. Built in Maine in 1856 she made it to San Francisco and was on her way out of San Francisco bay when the steam tug was called away to the collier Western Shore that had had a serious accident. The King Philip was left to drop anchor outside the bay. The anchor didn’t hold in heavy seas and she was washed up on Ocean Beach where she still is. Everyone on board got off safely.
The Chron had a good article on this yesterday. They included some good pictures from c.1983 when more of the ship was exposed. The National Parks Service records this as the only known remains of an American medium clipper ship and the most intact known remains of any wooden shipwreck on the California coast. It actually has the dubious distinction of being the site of a second shipwreck in 1902, of the 1875 schooner Reporter. Oddly the remains of the smaller schooner are buried inside the sand filled hull of the King Philip.
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Time and light
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| SF Garden 2007 |
Summer time has arrived early, before even the spring equinox. I like it. The light in the morning when I start work is of a quality you don’t often see, or at least it appears to be. Who used to get up this early (and pay attention) in March? I think I’m going to like these three extra weeks of spring light. And of course what’s not to like about the ‘later’ sunsets. Anyway the garden is oblivious to the time change, and continues to sprout. Here’s a few pictures we keep updating at our Picasa site.
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RIP Delores
It is with great sadness that I have to report that the star of pigcam, Delores, has died. She was young, and well loved by her many internet fans, and all the kids and staff at the schools in Landrake and Saltash. She will be missed.
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Delores – another perfect dozen?
Delores is about to farrow again – have more piglets. Will she have another perfect dozen and keep her 100% record? Find out here on the pigcam – http://www.pigcam.co.uk – live – this weekend!
UPDATE (Wed Oct 11th): Yes, she farrowed on Sunday (Oct 8th). She had 14 piglets plus one stillborn. Of the 14 alive one died overnight. This is not unusual with a litter of this size. She raised all 12 last time. She has a good chance of raising 13 this time. Good luck Delores! Oh, and if you want to look for yourselves – good luck to you too! The pigcam is generally overwhelmed and I haven’t been able to check for more than a day. There was BBC breakfast show coverage on Tuesday and there’s a direct feature on BBC Cornwall which will cause a lot of traffic. If it’s busy check back in a few days, or at night, UK time.
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