Red sun, red kite … with a faint sun pillar.
Admin1 is reading The Inspector and Silence by Hakan Nesser.
Tag: kite
Another Cloudy Day
A red kite in a grey sky.
Admin1 is rereading Slade House and Admin2 is rereading The Bone Clocks, both by David Mitchell.
Fly Me to the Moon
Admins 1 and 2 both took photos like this yesterday when the sky was clear. Today was unbroken dense black clouds.
Admin1 is reading Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indriðason.
Kite in Flight
But not today. Today was like night. Our solar panels did zero watts.
Admin1 is reading The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (oh dear — very clunkily written, full of inconsistent characters explaining the daft plot to each other. Hasn’t he heard of show-don’t-tell?).
We scored 10 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
For the Benefit of Mr Kite There Will Be a Crow Tonight
A crow mobbing a red kite.
Admin1 is reading Thud! by Terry Pratchett. Admin2 is reading The Lonely Dead by Michael Marshall.We watched The Fifth Estate.
Let’s Go Fly a Kite up to the Highest Height
Admin1 is reading The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (and what a terrific novel it was) and Admin2 is reading Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson (and forgot it the next day). We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Bright Light Kite Flight
A sunny day for a change; birds, buds etc. Spring is coming!
Caffè della giornata: Taylors Rich Italian
Kite in Flight
We scored 10 on the Guardian Weekend quiz which we had to do online because there was no mag in our Guardian.
Kaffe af/av dagen: Bottega Milanese la Classica: coffeeish.
Cloud of the Day; Nimbostratus again
A kite in flight.
Admin1 is reading The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter. We have finished watching Breaking Bad at last, and it was great that the story arc stuck it to the end.
Critter of the Day: Red Kite
A red kite hovering over the neighbour’s garden. Looking back over our red kite photos, they get closer every time.
Sunny and Bright: Red things in flight
First Aglais Io of the year alights on an early dandelion…
…a model plane takes off…
…and Milvus milvus joins in the fun. What a lovely day!
Admin1 has been reading Home before Dark by Charles Maclean. Admin2 has been reading Flesh and Blood by John Harvey and Stars and Bars by William Boyd. Now Admin1 is reading Flesh and Blood and Admin2 is reading Home before Dark.
More Red Kites
A pair of red kites on a glorious sunny day.
As well as JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S., Admin1 is reading The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar and Admin2 is reading A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
Cloud of the Day: Stratocumulus
High as a kite
Admin1 is reading Outrage and being somewhat revolted by the Icelandic culinary offerings.
Critters of the Day: Red kite, black crow
Dancing in the sky
Admin1 is reading The Eye with Which the Universe Beholds Itself by Ian Sales
Cloud of the Day: Nimbostratus
A dull sky brightened by a visit from the Red Kite
Clouds of the Day: Cumulus, Cirrus, Contrails
Things we saw today but didn’t photograph: (a) a red kite and (b) a sundog in a curly cirrus cloud, looking like a rainbow treble clef
Cloud of the Day: Nimbostratus
These enormous birds were once extremely rare; now they’re the airborne equivalent of the urban fox