San G

San Gimignano. Lovely! I have the good fortune to have to go to Italy for a couple of days soon. It's Milan, not San G (where I was 4 years ago this week), but it is Italy. Such are the hardships of my job...



P.S. Talking of Italy, if you have a Senseo machine and like Italian Roast coffee - we have Segafredo pods (Intermezzo and Emozioni) available at Coffeo.co.uk

Originality is hard

A lesson on how hard it is to be original!

Whilst walking back from town at lunchtime with a colleague, it started to rain. Neither of us had umbrellas, but we on the way back we devised a concept for a double umbrella [which on checking, I see has already been done, of course]. We thought up some names - like Dubrella, Dumbrella... We came up with a rectangular version which we figured could be delightfully naughtily called the Rect-umbrella...!!

A quick look on google and... yup, unbelievably - 'Rect-umbrella' done! For sale in the US - of course.

Pretty Boy

Well - who's a pretty boy then...? (Pssst! Don't argue!)

Smoke Test

First attempts at smoke pictures,

Eclipse May 2003

31 May 2003 5am - Solar eclipse, seen from Southwold beach. Note the sunspots on the right hand side.

A bit yellow

Early may is a great time to get the flowering rape plants at their brightest yellow before the stalks grow too high and the green starts to interfere. This was taken a couple of miles away near the village of Wilburton - looking north up the slopes to get the fully reflected yellowness.

ITM: California

In This Month: May 2007 - California - too many pictures - but here's some interesting ones:

A rocky beach? - Nope hundreds of elephant seals...

     

California coast and Golden Gate Bridge...

     

Cala lilies in Golden Gate Park...

     


Textures...





(They were a palm leaf in Golden Gate Park, light reflecting in a film of soap at the exploratorium, an insect eating plant in Golden Gate Park again, and the trunk of a Giant Sequoia Redwood at Muir Woods)


Flowers near San Diego

     

Finally - after a hard day, it looks like our table is ready...at the Cliff House, Point Lobos, San Francisco.