Bramble and berry

So, the sun is dipping lower and the mornings getting crisper. Autumn is on its way. And to welcome it in, along with the harvest moon, we have been cooking up a brambly storm of wild blackberry jelly in our lovely new kitchen. Yummmmmmm, sticky fingers...

Sundog spotting

Spotted from the train: a 'sundog'

According to my cloud collector's handbook, one of these collects 35 points!

'Sundogs can appear when a cloud's ice crystals are shaped like hexagonal plates and aligned almost horizontally. When the sun is very low in the sky, the crystals refract most light by 22 degrees, so observers see their collective sparkles as bright spots on either side of the sun.'

Blue

Wavelength 440–490 nm
Frequency 680–610 THz
Hex triplet #0000FF
RGBB (r, g, b) (0, 0, 255)

'the color of heaven and the abyss, the sky and the sea, the color of sobriety and temperance, but also the color of the imagination...' Alexander Theroux

An amazing weekend spent dunking fabric in stinky brown water and hanging it out to watch it turn bright blue still baffles me...