Twelfth Night at Tolethorpe

Twelfth Night in July
mistaken identities
on open-air stage


Excellent performance by Stamford Shakespeare Company on a fine summer's evening.

The waxing moon

Yesterday evening:

above a chimney
in a pink gold evening sky
the moon's question mark


and today:


in the midday sky
the moon is a pale sunshade
as parachutes fall


I didn't attempt to take photos of either though.

Bits of Southampton

Outside the City Art Gallery

On the wall of the 'Juniper Berry' pub

the town I thought of
as the passage to the south
is much much more . . .


Southampton - 
transit to somewhere else 
with history

Seasonal cappuccino

small cappuccino 
dressed for summer -
sunshade? umbrella?

or turn it upside down
whatever floats your boat.

sheela-na-gig

stone carving
female with fearsome features
to drive out evil spirits

at Braunston in Rutland.


She may be a relic of a previous pagan site. Used face down as a step until rediscovered in 1920 or so.

follow on from soggy socks

Two online friends have added lines to the haiku - we are having fun this month with a thing called tan-renga. One person writes a haiku, and another person adds two lines to turn it into a tanka. 
5-7-5-7-7 syllables, or short long short long long. Or shorter.

So - "jazzmuzz'  turned it into this:

soggy socks and boots 

open church has a picture 

- Noah's Ark (aliqot)

should we have entered  

port in a storm two by two? (jazzmuzz)

which raised a grin!

"goldenlangur" turned it into this:

soggy socks and boots 

open church has a picture 

- Noah's Ark aliqot 

brimful of cloud-animals 

sails into the rainbow gl 

playful and light-hearted!

soggy socks . . .

soggy socks, wet boots

open church has a picture

 - Noah’s Ark