Moon and Venus on a Bicycle

It was a freezing morning today, which meant I got to wear the neck warmer I bought yesterday and thus set off for work feeling like a Poundland lady ice skating coach from Omsk. It did help though.

I drew the line at the balaclava until it gets colder. It is too gimp like.

My hand thermometer told me about zero degrees and that indeed was what it was. Having read lots of  reports on twitter I wondered why I wasn't seeing Venus. The answer was that I was looking in the wrong direction - Venus in the morning is in the Eastern sky, idiot!

Dawn wasn't far off but it was still a very bright object, with the added bonus of there being a beautiful thin sliver of moon nearby.

Obviously my phone doesn't take great pictures of astronomical objects, but I  hope I've picked up the flavour of my cold, crisp morning.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 04.12.18

Up in the Skies

I was off today, first Friday thus in ages, but golly gee did I waste it. So tired after my shortened weekend then shift I wasn't out of the house until mid afternoon, and didn't get to go for a run until about two hours ago, when I blasted around 6km at a pretty sharp pace.

Feels good to have a little running form back compared to last year.

The afternoon compirsed me heading to the library to get some more books, but before that having a sit at Rumbles in outside the cafe in the mizzle. The gulls were flying home to roost overhead, as the sun began to set in a brassy looking sky.

An aeroplane, flashing its lights furiously, chased after the gulls and managed to get in the same shot.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 03.12.16