Our excitement this morning is provided by a gull that has found a small washed up flounder in a pocket of water on the beach. The bird cannot believe its good fortune. It chortles with delight.
The colours of the world around us are changing. The sea whiter. The clouds darker. Scotland is settling into winter.
A lyrical insight into Canada :https://rossboulton1.substack.com/p/my-fellow-americans-canadian-porch
Swords into ploughshares :https://thedebrief.org/the-classified-roots-of-nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-how-a-spy-agencys-secret-satellite-became-a-space-observatory/
Safe flying :https://uxmag.com/articles/is-knowledge-management-worth-it
Shopping malls and ugliness:https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/you-probably-own-this-7-eleven
Oil:https://www.cfr.org/articles/crude-calculations-why-the-iran-war-hasnt-yet-caused-an-oil-shock
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Hari OM
... has Angus decided Autumn will be a non-event this year, then? It's foggy and raining here in the west right now, but still 15'C, so am definitely not thinking of thermals yet. YAM xx
I was also surprised that you are moving directly to winter! In any event, those first two photos today are wonderful - happy gull, wintry field (maybe that's why you feel that way today?). I made it most of the way through the piece on shopping malls and ugliness. I don't disagree, but I was struck by the author's praise of Tokyo's (nonexistent) zoning - perhaps he doesn't know that 7-eleven is Japanese?
You returned, where do you belong?
The first two photos are beautiful. Autumn's soon arrival is more apparent every day but thankfully winter isn't about to descend upon us.
Love the 2nd photo! Very Van Gogh-esque!
The early morning pictures- especially the sunrise are stunning. Not sure I've seen that russet color in a sunrise before... I enjoyed the Canada/tarriff article. There is policy and then there is humanity.
Hints of Autumn in TO, but, thankfully, not of winter yet.
The Canada tariff piece did resonate with me. I am a Canadian-French dual citizen, born abroad, fluent in english but with an accent still, and with a cell phone full of "opinions" in both languages. No offence to american readers of this blog, and to Americans in general, but my own risk-assessment made me decide not to cross South under the current administration.
This is sad.
My Canadian family, similarly, has declined to come south during this administration.
John Geddy (also spelled Geddie or Geddes) mapped St Andrews in the 16th century.
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