had a really great day, one of the best of the year, in Allendale in deep snow on the hills; sun and fresh clean snow, only animal and bird footprints and mine. on the other hand I'm reading a scholarly book given by a friend with dictionary by my side, ( I have the dictionary by my side, not my friend and a dictionary by my side- just to be clear)already had too look up heuristic, solipsistic, aestival and cy.. what was it? cynosural, and another: what woz it??? yes: sidereal, not to mention quotes in Latin and Greek sans translation! I'm going to have to take it slowly..........

been trying a little op art, canny difficult to get nice clean lines, especially if the wife starts chopping vegetables at the same table you are painting on.

the birds aren't op art, I think they are starlings

but what had happened to the boy names custard?: no-one seemed to know.

i take far too many photo's,

shame this is out of focus but I still like it

this is my favorite tree , a little oak.

this is a contrail with shadow

i also like crows,

and clouds, this formation p[robably has a name but I don't know I do have two cloud books so I ought to chack it out, it is probably a kind of alto stratus, maybe cirro stratus, how do you tell?

just had a quick check and it might be altocummulus undulatus, then again............

and this is easy: evening cumulus

with a silver lining

although these last three are actually in reverse order of taking,

a few more pics from last week, some nice sunny mornings as well as some rainy nights there is a crescent moon somewhere if you look hard, or even if you look soft

here it is, more bigger

more skies over the last week.