Caught out

 Flash - Lyrid, lyric?

"Astronomer - moon lighting"

PAN SOHO Comet 

 

Or in pictures:

 

 

Lyrids 2026 campaign

- don't know anything lyrical

 Technically, there is only this "Moon", all the others are satellites, and those going around the Earth are called artificial satellites. However, in most cases the meaning and intent is clear - and astronomers don't publish dictionaries.

 So these dancing objects are the 4 Galilean satellites of Jupiter, They are bright enough to be visible to the unaided eye if it were not for the brightness of Jupiter nearby. If one can hold binoculars steady enough one can see them in 8 X 40s or better.

 

 

 Too much moonshine?

 

WOB 

Spring sprang a leak

 Road under water:

Heron,

 

 

Osprey

 

 fly over

Fishing the flooded

 

 WOB

Electrifying April

 3 AM

300m/s

Lightning flashes, Thunder roars!

Cuckoo seeks shelter,

 

Warm air over ice

Snow melts

 The fishin' is good

 But "hair" raising?

 The consequences of too much hot air:

 

 We don't have to heat:

The times are changing quickly:

 

Between mid November and mid April 4 electrical storms, several more heavy rain storms and more than 4m of snow - flooding? 

Soon? 

 

Stay tuned.

Looney,
WOB 

An old Haiku revisited

 I am saddened or disappointed in the lack of response to my haiku challenge. I am going to explain one of mine and then withdraw. It is the one that I was told I could not have written!

That would be number 2:

Rainbows on hill tops,
Puffins reigning supreme.
Glad am I for this. 

It refers to a memory of an event 60 years ago when Vicki taught me how to play the Eriskay Love Lilt on the piano, all on the black keys since it is in the pentatonic scale.

 

The last line of the haiku paraphrases a line in the song:

 

 How could this sentiment be AI?

 The challenge then is to find the others I wrote and the 2 AI wrote:

 The poems have been odered alphabetically by 1st line.
 
#1
Coastal windswept home,
Pink spheres on slender stems sway,
Salt air, sun-drenched life.
 
#2
Rainbows on hill tops,
Puffins reigning supreme.
Glad am I for this.
 
#3
Sea Pinks along the cliffs
Nesting with Puffins, Fulmars,
Nature Lovers smile.
 
#4
Sea pinks on the rock,
Fair Isle coast in salty wind,
Pink cushions hold fast.
 
#5
Sea pinks shimmering -
Dewy droplets lovers shed.
Fragile strength embrace.

WOB 

The Aura of Orillia

 Wonder how places get their names?

 

 Wonderment more:

 Do these ring a bell?

 

 Happy Easter,

 

WOB