7.30am Sunday morning. Lightly raining now , contemplating on grabbing an umbrella & donning my rain coat for my regular one hour walk. Procrastinating by thinking the rain might get heavier. Just do it Lori.

#clouds ⛅️ 😍

Glorious day at RHS Wisley under the flight paths to/from London Heathrow and Gatwick. There's the Moon in the first image. Can you spot it?

I potter 17 Virginia Sweetspire (Itea) today in one gallon pots. I hope have 50 potted in a couple of days. I’ll let them hang around until next spring when I deploy them in my battle against some invasive periwinkle and Japanese silt grass on my my slope next to Cypress Creek 🌱 🌊 😊

Brilliant Moon and Jupiter conjunction this evening. Nicely separated by a passing cloud! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

“This is all I want, it’s all I need…” “Beat a Drum” from the the Museum of Television & Radio, LA, for Launch. June 2001 #REVEAL25 @michaelstipe.bsky.social @millsish.bsky.social

The 10.8% waxing crescent and Venus this evening.

6.50pm NW.

I'd like to wish everybody a very safe good night. I had a great time capturing the Moon and Venus. A bit of thin cloud but too bad. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #photography

The farmer's market is buzzing. The local radio station is broadcasting from there and highlighting bee day #localmarket

REVEAL, the band’s 12th studio album, was released this week (May 14/15) in 2001. The album, produced by Pat McCarthy and the band, featured singles “Imitation of Life,” “All The Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star),” & “I’ll Take The Rain.” What’s your favorite Reveal song? #REVEAL25

tomorrow I will finish the Moon then start adding all the bokeh!

"Day 090, orbit 1397 — Did you know that light can bend each time it passes from one material to another? In microgravity, this effect can be recreated very simply by trapping a bubble of air inside a bubble of water... Isn’t science amazing?" – esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot   🎥 ESA/NASA #εpsilon

On this day/night in 2023 I captured Vega (Alpha Lyrae). 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Ok this is amazing

It's a beginning. I have plans #kato #modelrail #modelrailway 🚂

Double rainbows this afternoon, captured with Nikon D7200. I think this is our first rainbows in 2026.

Another Milky Way panorama, because some of this light traveled thousands of years across the abyss, only to land on my camera sensor. We might as well have a look at it.

Some of my mini paintings (10x10cm; 3"x3" for Blood Moon at Golden Gate Bridge)

Friday last night, with Alma Flamenca at Villa 77.

Last night's cloudy full #Moon 😀 #FullMoon #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Bow and arrow sky #bluesky #photography

In my cd player tonight driving home from the south of Adelaide to the west. 30min drive, warm night & hardly any traffic. Awesome. youtu.be/Kak_LYG_0dU?...

I was 24 at the time. The first track I heard was “Voice of Harold” on WRDU’s Future Classics. Up to this point the only b-side I owned was “Toys in the Attic” from the 12” version of “Fall On Me.” I first learned of R.E.M.’s numerous b-sides thanks to the Pageantry tour program I purchased in ‘86.

This morning ANZAC Day, Seaton Park RSL. Lest we forget.

Michael performs his new song, “The Rest of Ever” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. @michaelstipe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgx...

My Apollo arts

Venus meets the Pleiades. 🦋✨ 24.4.2026

Blood lillies & busy bees.

Timelapse of the crescent #Moon near the Pleiades setting on the night of 19 April. Venus can be seen just above the rooftop at the start. The Hyades open cluster comes in from the left as the sky darkens. Compare its size to the Pleiades, both open clusters in Taurus. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Tonight my sky has a familiar cloudy look. I'm glad I made the effort last night to venture to the wilds of Newcastle to capture Moony and the Pleiades. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

My first Milky Way with Nikon D7200. How I wish we have power outage during clear night again. I'm so curious with the result.

Venus and Moon conjunction! @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social #astronomy #astrophotography

I first heard this on WQDR who were also playing deep cuts from the album such as “Pretty Persuasion.” It would not be until the release of the Succumbs video compilation in 1987 that I’d see the video. I bought Reckoning shortly after it came out from Sound Shop at Vernon Park Mall in Kinston.

I have bought some Kato n scale. I love it. Everything is marvellous. Particularly the track for ease of joining and laying out. #kato #modelrail #modelrailway 🚂

Early evening Sydney sky last night with bruising beginning of sunset.

today on IHTOV: jonathan lee ( @beetlebump.bsky.social ) tells us about his first record player, a charming essay about a portable turntable and the love behind it ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/my-fi...

Can't get enough of Artemis

Murmur, the band’s debut studio album, was released 43 years ago on April 12, 1983. Produced by Mitch Easter & Don Dixon, Murmur remains, according to music journalist Tim Peacock, “one of the most compelling and otherworldly debut albums in rock history.” Share your Murmur memories in the comments.

Crescent Moon and Crescent Earth from Artemis II. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography #ArtemisII

I freaked a few people out after posting this on FB😁 I love that I still see them at times in the garden.

In 1980 I had no idea who R.E.M. was. Little did I realize the deep connection they would develop with NC which led to me hearing them on WQDR out of Raleigh in 1983. I was intrigued by that first song I heard (“Laughing”). Over time my love for them would grow not unlike that of the kudzu vine.