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Rain flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Where do YOU stand? Share a six-word story about your place or location (and maybe we can even guess where it is?!) Feel free to add art or be creative with your six word story.
I wrote one about the city I call home:
Rain always near: dear green place
The image at the top is taken through my study window looking out at my garden on a typical Glasgow morning
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Bingham’s Pond flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
Glasgow is called Dear Green Place, and looking around where I live in the suburbs you can see why. Today’s TDC says that:
3-30-300 is an urban forestry concept which states that every resident should be able to see at least 3 mature trees from their home, live in a neighbourhood with at least 30% tree canopy cover, and be within 300 metres of a high-quality green space. Make a version of this rule for an online community, or show us an example of it from where you live.
Here’s the view from my bedroom window this morning – so many trees – apple, plum, lilac, rowan. Yesterday I counted 14 sparrows sitting on a branch on one of them. Sitting here in my study on a drizzly day I everything looks green through the window and the berries on the rowans are gleaming.
Garden trees flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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For today’s TDC, 3 things that made me happy this week. Walking around my city and seeing this banner, drinking butterfly pea flower tea (which is deep blue and goes purple when lemon is added), and my lovely Lacey cat.
Three happy things flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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101/365 Hogganfield Loch flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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The Kelvin at Kelvingrove flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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Today’s TDC reminded me of a game a friend and I set for conference back in 2020. We were due to hold it in Glasgow, but pandemic restrictions moved it online. So instead of giving our attendees a guided tour of our city, we sent our conference mascot, Hamish the Coo (knitted by me) on a virtual tour. Here he is outside the Armadillo.
Hamish Armadillo flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license
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Maps of Glasgow created for TDC4143 with this Minimalist city map posters maker
Glasgow Map (Autumn Filter) flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Glasgow Map (Copper Patina Filter) flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Glasgow Map (Neon Cyberpunk filter) flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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33/365 Kelvingrove flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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Shady Map flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
On a cloudy day
Still, there are moments of light
Birds sing, and I smile
