Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:11 PM I strongly recommend the Star Walk app. It might cost you a couple of quid, a one-off, but it's incredibly beautiful. Point your phone or iPad at the sky and it tells you exactly what you're looking at in glorious view. Move your device around and you can follow the sky around, even below the horizon, and there are lots more facets to the app. I wouldn't be without it. Apart from Daily Art, it's my very favourite app. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:18 PM I'm absolutely no expert on telescopes, but I would just say that, in order to save both disappointment and your hard-earned dough, you should do mucho homework before you buy, preferably on astronomy-type websites. It's something of a minefield, and I have a feeling that you definitely get what you pay for. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:21 PM Thanks again Steve and I shall keep it in mind but, whilst I am up-to-date with my laptop and Windows 10, I don't have a smart phone as my 2002 model Nokia still works! (It's in my bag in case I have to make an emergency call and for the occasional message, and sometimes used as an alarm.) |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 23 Jan 21 - 02:40 PM My poem "For the Poor" - shaped into a pyramid and with a photo of the Pyramid in Cestius, taken through a bus window in Rome, during my visit in May 2019. |
Subject: RE: Pics From: Donuel Date: 23 Jan 21 - 04:22 PM Bagle |
Subject: RE: Pics From: Donuel Date: 23 Jan 21 - 05:07 PM My poem sailing was shaped like a sailboat. In photoshop finalize the text and draw new words in a different colour or colorize the finalized text witf a word or symbol unused engagement ring |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 23 Jan 21 - 06:29 PM Believe me, you have never written an actual poem. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 24 Jan 21 - 05:32 AM Either way, thanks for the Nasa pics, D. (I quite like the way they peel open); and an apology for the typo just above - it's the Pyramid OF Cestius, in Rome, sorry. |
Subject: RE:Pics From: Donuel Date: 25 Jan 21 - 11:00 AM Familiar stars in OZ https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2101/SouthernCross_Slovinsky_3000.jpg |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 25 Jan 21 - 02:09 PM Thanks, again, D. ... not sure what mountain that is? My WalkaboutsVerse poem questioning "People or Money?" with a photo of zhezhi - the Chinese predecessor of Japanese origami - from a Hong Kong money-changer. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Donuel Date: 25 Jan 21 - 04:04 PM That is a mountain in Peru thats also beneath the horizon of the equator. “The ultimate horizon” Please, remember me Happily By the passion flower vine laughing With bruises on my chin The time when We counted every black car passing By my house beneath the hill And up until Someone caught cold that wasn't a cold With a cough, and fever, A hospital A vision too removed to mention But Please, remember me Fondly I heard from someone you’re still living And then They went on to say That the pearly gates Had some eloquent graffiti Like ‘We’ll meet again’ And ‘Fuck the Trump’ And ‘Tell my mother not to worry’ And angels with their grey Handshakes Were always done with such abandon And Please, remember me At Halloween Making fools of all the neighbors Our faces painted white By midnight We’d forgotten one another And when the morning came I was ashamed Only now it seems so silly That season left the world And then returned And now we’re fed up by the city So Please, remember me Mistakenly In the window of the internet and kitchen Then pass us by But much too high To see the empty roads at early hours Leave notes of wisdom not read Just like the gates Around holy places With words like ‘Beats underground’ and ‘Don’t Look Down’ And ‘Someone Save Temptation’ And Please, remember me As in a dream We were raised like forest babies Among the fallen trees And fast asleep Aside the weeds now taller than trees That fell silently Losing all their height Gave a gift for tommorrow In an empty canopy so new life cries A new idea That swings as high as any savior But Please, remember me My misery And how it cost me all my wonder Those friends that love the rain And chasing trains The colored birds above there running In circles round the well And where it spells On the wall behind St. Peter’s So bright with cinder gray in spray paint ‘Who the hell can see forever?’ And Please, remember me Frequently In the car waiting for others to finish My hand between my knees I was only free to dream And said I am the unknown poet But never meant to last’ The clowns that passed Made me come up with anger DC was filled with circus dogs Filling parking lots It had an element of danger So Please, remember me Finally And all my uphilling musing now sleds down the hill But if I make The pearly gates I did my best to make a drawing Of evil and good A boy and girl An angel kissing a devil A monkey and a man An orchestra and choir Filling all of Earth an auditorium with old familiar songs. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 26 Jan 21 - 02:58 PM With reference to Henry Lawson's poem "Faces in the Street" and a photo of the monument to him in Sydney's Domain, my poem "The Order of the Day" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Donuel Date: 27 Jan 21 - 08:13 PM Old Hippie Americans are most all immigrants. HOW FAR WE HAVE COME When our fathers came to this golden land There was nothing but forests and rivers and sand And a few million Indians running around Now look what we’ve made of the little they found There’s cities of silver that shine in the night Churches of splendor and halls of delight And only an echo of Indian drums Who can deny how far we have come The slave ships they came with the whip and the rack And a million black people with scars on their back Picked cotton, drew water, and slept in the cold With a bible for comfort they were happy and cold The laws they were passed, slavery went Our lives integrated at least six percent In the sharecroppers shack and the big city slum Who can deny how far we have come The immigrants came from the green Irish shore From Poland and Russia, ten million and more Germany, Italy, all the world round To settle our ghettos and immigrant towns Their brains and their bodies they put to the wheel To build our great factories and towers of steel To march to our battles and carry our guns Who can deny how far we have come Now all through the Andes, they’ve heard of our name On the factory wall, in the palace of shame They drink Coca Cola and the times that they spend Goes straight to the pockets of our businessmen To pay for our Fords, and our split level homes Our Hi-Fis and records and six percent loans Our profits protected with dictators guns Who can deny how far we have come In Asia and Africa, they’re learning too How free enterprise can do wonders for you South Africas prisons are bursting with men Barbed wire keeps the Vietnamese in Where elections are daydreams that never get far American weapons are there standing guard We’re ready to fight for the lands that we run Who can deny how far we have come Our fears they are many though they’re seldom saved They’re black and they’re yellow and they’re brown and they’re red They see through the legend, they smell the decay They’re learning to fight the American way And we in our armchairs are quick to condemn Our bankbooks are falling, our profits might end The breaking of change is our funeral hum Who can deny how far we have come When our fathers came to this golden land There was nothing but forests and rivers and sand And a few million Indians running around Now look what we’ve made of the little they found There’s cities of silver that shine in the night Churches of splendor and halls of delight And only an echo of Indian drums Who can deny how far we have come |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 29 Jan 21 - 12:02 PM "Repatriating - Australia to England" - with a photo of an almost full-English fry-up. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 30 Jan 21 - 05:22 AM Not sure if the attached pics of pollution are your thing (there is also one of a white rhino from a Nairobi Safari Walk), but here is my poem on the pros and cons of "Plastics" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 30 Jan 21 - 12:58 PM "Moroccan Tea" and, if I do say so myself, the attached photos are mint! |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 31 Jan 21 - 03:04 PM With 3 syllables per line of verse, & plenty of flora & fauna pics, my poem "A Good Life" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 01 Feb 21 - 02:18 PM With photos of Owen, Darwin, etc., my WalkaboutsVerse poem on "Paradigms" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 01 Feb 21 - 04:55 PM "If we humans evolved from apes, Why on earth are there living apes?" Maybe you don't accept the theory of evolution, or maybe you've just kept yourself ignorant of its detailed proposals. In any event, these two lines are a travesty. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 02 Feb 21 - 04:32 PM Not to compare myself in any other way, Steve, David Attenborough majored in zoology and has a strong interest in anthropology (I think his son still lectures on anthropology in Australia); and I majored in anthropology and have a strong interest in zoology. Thus, I've watched and read a lot of his work, plus others such as on the Sky Nature channel, and agree with most evolutionary theory - but, to my mind, it does not explain everything/there are holes. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 02 Feb 21 - 04:54 PM Of course. But do try to think of a branched tree, not a straight line. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 02 Feb 21 - 05:23 PM ...but Homo sapiens lived in the same locations/environments as other apes..? |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 02 Feb 21 - 05:41 PM We still do. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 02 Feb 21 - 05:45 PM ...so they should be "we"! |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 02 Feb 21 - 07:41 PM At this point I'm terminating this particular line of enquiry. When one realises that one can't get through, yet persists in trying, one dices with the onset of insanity... |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Donuel Date: 02 Feb 21 - 09:17 PM Meteors are colorful While the human or ape eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured is a Quadrantids meteor captured by camera over Missouri, USA, early this month that was not only impressively bright, but colorful. The radiant grit, likely cast off by asteroid 2003 EH1, blazed a path across Earth's atmosphere. Colors in meteors usually originate from ionized elements released as the meteor disintegrates, with blue-green typically originating from magnesium, calcium radiating violet, and nickel glowing green. Red, however, typically originates from energized nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. This bright meteoric fireball was gone in a flash -- less than a second -- but it left a wind-blown ionization trail that remained visible for several minutes. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:56 AM You will see plenty of colours in a meteor shower with the unaided eye if you set yourself up to observe as ideally as possible. A few years ago we were in Andalucía in an extremely remote location with a perfectly dark sky (1). There was no moon (2). The sky was cloudless and free of haze (3). My sister and I set ourselves up with two reclining deckchairs and aimed our gaze at the radiant of the Perseid meteor shower (4). I made sure that my distance specs were clean (5). We were lucky in that the temperature remained above 25C all night but we did douse ourselves in 50% deet. We saw many shooting stars, most of which were coloured other than "white." In less than ideal conditions, or if you just catch an accidental glimpse of a passing shooting star out of the corner of your eye, you may miss any colour. Of course, the colour-detecting cones in your retina are best in bright light... And this has got what to do with poetry? Well, you never know... |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:02 PM ...never been but have heard Andalusia has the only desert in mainland Europe. Without recalling any given location, I do remember looking up at many stars from outback Australia. (I'm still looking into a telescope, by the way, but figure I'll wait for warmer weather in Manchester to open the door to my juliet balcony, so am not in such a hurry.) Following on from debate over evolution, not sure if anyone is up for an animal, mineral, vegetable game! but here is my poem on "Collecting the (golf) Cards" - with an extra photo of my minimal mineral collection, just under the tele. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Donuel Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:19 PM What does WAV have to do with poetry? I dunno Waves on the other hand have everything to do with everything. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 21 - 01:46 PM We've travelled quite a bit around Andalucía, but as it happens the desert at Tabernas is very close to where we mostly stay. The film set used for several spaghetti westerns is still there and is a tourist attraction. We stood in the desert but viewed the Wild West from afar only. We could only ever go in the height of summer and the temperature was routinely around 37-40C most days, except in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the somewhat lower-altitude sierras to the east. On one memorable day we tried to sit on a beach at Cabo de Gata in a gale-force wind and 40-degree heat, which wasn't quite like Bude in February. The humidity was so low that it was comfortable in the shade even on the hottest days. In a few minutes we'll be having our usual Wednesday cheesy night in, no cookery required, eaten off the lovely fishy-pattern pottery from the village of Alhabia in Almería province. The pottery may be Spanish but the cheeses will be English, French and German, the olives from Sicily, the cherry tomatoes from the Netherlands and the red and white wines from Puglia and Sicily. Oh, and Bath Olivers... I still proudly sport my EU badge when I'm out and about. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Donuel Date: 03 Feb 21 - 01:51 PM I enjoyed that. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:09 PM I forgot to mention the chorizo, Spanish of course, which I sliced as thinly as I could. I chose a dolce version so as not to overwhelm tbe cheeses... |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:12 PM "...the somewhat lower-altitude sierras to the east..." For any geography buffs checking up, I meant the sierras to the east of the Sierra Nevada. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:12 PM I don't recall it from when I twice visited my late uncle and auntie (who had moved down from Manchester to a bungalow in Kilkhampton) but the Bude Sea Pool looks very inviting - when the climate warms-up and covid cools down, of course. (Sydney is famous for what they call rock pools but from Google Maps and pics it seems at least as good.) Hope to make a third visit one day... |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 21 - 05:36 PM I'm a member of Friends of Bude Sea Pool. It's been cleaned out, renovated and been given upgraded yet very tasteful facilities. It's a grand local asset these days. We had an old aunt of Mrs Steve and the aunt's daughter living in Kilk until about 20 years ago so we know it well. It's a few hundred feet above sea level and we joke about its chilly climate as compared with Bude. The sea pool is a great place to get sunset views over Summerleaze Beach to the Downs beyond. I have many such photos! Our favourite lockdown exercise is a quick stomp round the Downs, from Crooklets beach to Summerleaze, past the sea pool. It's been bracing recently! |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 03 Feb 21 - 05:49 PM Thanks for the local knowledge Steve - sounds good. Haven't got a pic of it (as I say, I'd like to make another visit - with bridge camera) and I think I've posted it before when you have mentioned Bude, but after enjoying a walkabout I decided to call it "Birdwatchers' Bude" as, both along the coast and inland, I saw a lot that day. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 21 - 06:22 PM Just behind the tourist centre we have a very unlikely colony of bee orchids. I'll have to take your word for it on tree creepers, but we have of plenty reed warblers (a bird with a sore throat) sand martins, chiffchaffs that now overwinter, a few kingfishers and otters in both the canal and river. I'm told that Ratty lives near Rodd's Bridge, but I fear he hasn't much chance while there are escaped mink about. The unintended adverse consequences of animal rights liberators. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 04 Feb 21 - 12:10 PM I wrote that 20 years ago but imagine I would have checked if it was a "Treecreeper" I saw rather than, with a similar habit, a Nuthatch. Also, I have since checked on the internet and am quite sure that the cliffs are indeed "sandstone" there in your nice part of the world - but, as you probably know, it varies throughout Cornwall. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 04 Feb 21 - 01:34 PM I notice, mainly due to Covid I think, rugby league has moved closer to the suggestions I made in this poem many years ago - "One Rugby?"; with a photo of Headingley Rugby Stadium. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 Feb 21 - 01:59 PM Massive upper Carboniferous sandstones alternating with thin, dark shales. Much-twisted and folded by the Armorican mountain-building phase. Makes for some great sea cliffs. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 04 Feb 21 - 02:08 PM Cheers, Steve. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 05 Feb 21 - 02:10 PM With a couple of photos from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, my poem "Monopoly on Weaponry" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 06 Feb 21 - 06:15 PM With lots of photos of Kew's Kitchen Garden, and a couple of lakes, my song/chant from WalkaboutsVerse "Just Subsist" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 07 Feb 21 - 04:29 PM With a photo of London buses, my poem on "Congestion" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 10 Feb 21 - 12:03 PM With photos of the Colosseum, Burj Khalifa and, soon to be, Buckingham Public Hospital, my poem "Along with the Ingenuity" |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Malcolm Storey Date: 10 Feb 21 - 12:53 PM Just south of York where the York - Leeds railway line diverges from the East Coast Main Line is an area were a minor crosses over both lines. This is a popular spot with rail enthusiasts. It is also a good place to see bee orchids - from late spring onwards. Always provided we will be allowed to visit. |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Malcolm Storey Date: 10 Feb 21 - 02:45 PM Whoops Should have typed minor ROAD - dindawlexting fingerts |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 10 Feb 21 - 03:04 PM Thanks Malcolm - I know roughly where you mean and am quite sure I've been on the line between Leeds and York (probably for a work F2F meeting way back in the pre-Covid days!). And I've never come across bee orchids but would like to try and photograph them and, if any good, attach to one or two of my poems... |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Feb 21 - 04:42 PM Bee orchids were discovered in Bude about 20 years ago - in a patch of rough grass right behind the tourist information centre. I have some lovely photos (somewhere...) |
Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 10 Feb 21 - 04:59 PM I shall have to remember that for my next visit - "Bee Orchids' Bude," as well as, mentioned before, from my last visit "Birdwatchers' Bude". ...bridge camera on macro mode, probably... |
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