I have now returned from from my second journey (in a month) down south. It is such a long journey (5 hours) that it feels like a trip to the moon. Making the journey by road is less than ideal; it is mostly motorways, which currently have a lot of roadworks that slow down the [...]
Archive for the tag 'Moon'
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Kent January 2012
To the Moon and Back
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2012
Filed under Gardens, Science & Nature
100 Photos 100 :: The Moon
Just a quick note for those who didn’t see my original comment and a reminder for those who did, the ‘100 photos’ post count will go to 102 because I inadvertently duplicated two themes along the way…
So watch this space for the final two in the series.
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 30th 2011
Filed under This & That
Fond Memories
His Life Continues by Lynn New
When death walks by with quiet tread,
To touch a loved one, who’s then led
Away from sleep, away from pain,
To wake in joy, to live again.
You’ll hear him on a whispered breeze,
A calling bird; in swaying trees.
Do not weep long, but lift your eyes,
You’ll see his glory in God’s skies.
He’ll be [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2011
Filed under Science & Nature
100 Photos 68 :: The Night Sky
March 19th was the day of the “super moon” phenomenon. The moon reached is closest point to earth in nearly two decades:
A “super moon” refers to a new or full moon that occurs when the Moon is 90% or over its closest position to Earth. It is the first time since January 19, 1992, [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 21st 2011
Filed under Out & About
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Do everything that you do in this life in the spirit of friendship.
For friendship is the seed, and the universe the tree.
From a Thousand Paths to friendship by David Baird
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 18th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Science & Nature
Moonlight
My brother seems to have been quite taken with my recent sunset picture. As he was leaving my house last night he commented on how beautiful the moon was and suggest that I take a photograph of it.
It was rather late at night and I didn’t think it was quite the thing to be [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes
The Sun Rises
I thought I would take advantage of this rather nice sunrise instead of my usual sunset pictures. I think I was really just using delaying tactics on my first day back to work after the Christmas break. My car needed scraping and the door was a bit frozen up causing me to struggle to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2010
