We have had beautiful sunrises and sunsets, and occasionally blue skies with extraordinary cloud transformations, like the one above. Well today could not be more grey, fog has turned this corner of the world dismal.
A day in the life of Lucy, two nights ago she collapsed in the kitchen in the evening. Every time she got up she fell down but still wanted to go outside for a pee. I grabbed rugs for the slippery kitchen floor and hauled her round and she managed to get up and go out. Last night she was her usual psychotic self, walking back and forth all the time. Age related dementia, small stroke? goodness knows but we are happily back together for the time being.
Then we have the cats and cat's protection, I am now in possession of two traps, a kitten trap and the one I caught the little cat that I feed, now safely neutered as a male. One down, three to catch and go to the vet, plus two little ones. Though Jo phoned last night, she reckons the two kittens are buried deep in their hay in the barn and will not come out.
The holly berries are fast disappearing from the holly tree, but remember just three weeks to the 21st December, the moment in time when day time light expands once again. Yule is there on the skyline.
And a thought to play around with ;) if we had not arrived, who would be in charge of the Earth now?
Were the Earth to be started over again with all its physical features identical, it is extremely unlikely that anything closely resembling a human being would ever again emerge. There is a powerful random character to the evolutionary process. A cosmic ray striking a different gene, producing a different mutation, can have small consequences early but profound consequences late. Happenstance may play a powerful role in biology, as it does in history. The farther back the critical events occur, the more powerfully can they influence the present.
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
And I cannot resist this elegant church doorway with two yews on either side, did Tolkien visit the church of St.Edward in Stow-on-the-Wold?
I have never seen that church. Lovely. Ah, Carl Sagan talking about 'yoomans'.
ReplyDeleteAs Tabor said it was on F/B, as was the quote from Sagan. Choose wisely on F/B and one can up with lots of good things.
DeleteI saw that church on Facebook. So mysterious and should be in a movie.
ReplyDeleteIf you read up on its history in Wiki, it has plenty to tell of the past. There is a book called, Remarkable Trees but I haven't seen it in it.
DeleteThat beautiful church doorway.
ReplyDeleteTess collapsed and the next day just walked up and down aimlessly going nowhere. I had her gently put to sleep as the vet said she had probably had a stroke. He didn't think she could see any longer .
That was sad Pat, Lucy though seems to be her normal self, chasing after food but it was probably a small stroke. It had me worried all night, but she slept on the rug next to my bed and was walking properly that morning.
DeleteMaybe the world would be a better place if the Neanderthals had become the dominant humanoids.
ReplyDeleteHi, well it seems that DNA from Neanderthals are in some people, in their genes as well. They are always depicted as ugly, but recent studies are always widening the evidence of how their genes have survived. Science is clever and as Sagan says 'happenstance' could be a factor.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful sky. Arilx
ReplyDeleteThe cloud formation was strange but the white clouds against the blue - perfection.
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