Seasons Greetings !

Well what can anyone say, its been a year for records all over the place and nightmares for many. Perhaps the Mayans were right and it is indeed the end of one system and the beginning of another. Going from one where predictability was the name of the game, in finance, education, most aspects of life......and the weather. To one where everything is reliant on the increasingly unpredictable weather ......
Just as the statistics and probability get used to being the rulers, its all going 'tits-up' and taking a lot of people by surprise.
And once again, as soon as we think we know everything, we find we know nothing and the people in charge are so into their own little worlds of personal gain and power they really are missing the big picture.
Short term thinking and long term blindness.
So here's my last sunrises for 2012  The skies are beautiful, whatever the weather........

 December 21st

December 1st

               December 11th

Fiery Skies over Halesowen

Have given up to the weather station for the time being....the highest winds not recorded .... battery flat .. huh !!

And I think that skies and now are far more interesting than probability. The weather in the UK can be probably anything and now that I don't have to go to work (Hooray) it doesn't really matter what the weather is, I have plenty to do regardless.

Whatever the Weather

The skies rule ..

Just Sunrises

Getting better at the picture arrangements....

click on the pic for enlarged view

No eclipse here !!!

Well much as expected, the uk was cloud covered for yesterday's eclipse.
However lots of good pics from around the world and Google have a delightful home page with a complete viewing video.......there will be lots on U Tube I'm sure.....but here, well as I am still trying to work out how to set up the microfocuser I look to the web for closeups ha ha....I will crack it one day............

Meanwhile the shed roof is still smiling.... and this should all have been on Jim's Astronomy Stuff blog !! ........

With regard to the weather....well it is anybodies guess really....

Who would be a weather forcaster ???

Well I wouldnt hope ever to be.......after weeks of fab sunshine, days of no wind and some getting worried about the lack of rain...all of a sudden the wind is gusting from all directions......





and now the rain is giving everything a good soaking.... see 18mm yesterday, and water butts filled swiftly.....



jolly good for the ducks eh!





quack quack

Lovely weather for doing stuff

Todays sunrise has the promise of another loverly dayeeeee

So Im orf to Wildrose to get down and dirty ... again......

and here's a pot of happy pansies.......