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the view from the telescope⤴

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Magpie in a telescope
Magpie in a telescope flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Is it possible to contribute to the present moment in any meaningful way while being wholly engulfed by it? Perhaps, it is only by stepping out of it, by taking a telescopic perspective, that we can then dip back in and do the work which our time asks of us.

Show the view in your telescope.

This morning, when I opened the curtains, I stood for a few moments watching the birds in the trees at the end of the garden. I watched this magpie fly from the rowan tree to perch on the top of this pole, and opened the window to take a picture.

Later, as I sat at my desk and found that my email would not load because of an MS Outage, I chatted to colleagues over Teams message (sadly that is still working) about the suitability of different birds to carry messages. We settled on flamingoes, but I do wonder about using a magpie.

Eastern Bloc Visuals⤴

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Pennine Tower
Pennine Tower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says:

We found some great historic images in Mastodon posted by @eastblocvisuals Explore their feed, and find an image you can add a caption to bring it into modern times.

Better yet, meme it! Does anyone even create meme images anymore or is it GenAI all the way down? The simplest create, adding text to an image. Also, please credit the source image with a link, eh?

Here is the stylin’ wheels in the capitol of Uzbekistan in 1969…

I looked through the feed and saw pic of a building in Prague called the Cube, previously called the Koospol Building

From here https://zpravobot.news/@eastblocvisuals/117541137352347480

It really reminded me of the Pennine Tower at Lancaster Services (see the image at the top of this post).  I always try to get a photo of this as we drive by – this one is from July this year. On looking online I found that the Cube was built in 1074- 1977, while the Pennine Tower was earlier, opening in 1965. Both are Brutalist architecture though – which is a style I find strangely beautiful.

Redwings⤴

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Redwings Haiku
Redwings Haiku flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Write a haiku about autumn. Bonus points for illustrating it.

We’ve been waiting for the redwings to arrive at the end of our garden and this weekend they appeared. They are really hard to see in the rowan trees as they blend into the red-brown leaves and red berries, but I got a photo of one yesterday that I’m quite pleased with. Here’s a haiku I wrote as I watched them flit from tree to tree.

Flashing through the trees
Stripping berries as they fly
Redwings have arrived

We’re All Changing⤴

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Mugdock June and October
Mugdock June and October flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

One hemisphere is entering Fall from Summer the other entering Spring from Winter… show us in a photo something that is changing (not necessarily nature).

Yesterday afernoon we found a gap in the rain clouds and walked around Mugdock Loch – a place we visit regularly, noticing as we walked around how many leaves had dropped since the last time we visited. Without knowing what the challenge would be today I stood and took a photo through the trees. So here’s Mugdock Loch in June and October – beautiful in all seasons.

We also saw a red squirrel while we were there, but didn’t get a photo.

The Art of Kilo⤴

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Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says

Write Out recently a workshop by teachers who use a traditional Hawaiian observation practice called Kilo alongside their students.

What are your observation super-powers? Or which ones do you tap into most to support your writing?

Learn more about Kilo

The one I use most is sight, and my camera is my superpowe – I often use it to help me to focus on details of my surroundings. On Saturday, as we were out at a nature reserve watching a heron, I saw how the zoom was catching the colours of this beech tree, with a seed head looking like a butterfly skeleton at the bottom right hand of the image.

Nature is beautiful in every season. Today, as I have a day off, I will head outside in the crisp autumn sun and plant some bulbs. Aloha!