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Image of the day – 16

The stratus is semi-transparent near its fuzzy edge, you can see the higher layer through it.

What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

I spotted this cloud scene in May 2024 and just had to capture it. As you can see, it’s a fine example of multiple horizontal levels of clouds of different kinds. At the bottom are small cumulus clouds, including one that looks higher than the others. That’s just perspective, they’re all at the same level, imagine them sitting on a transparent sheet stretched out from the horizon and passing overhead.

Above this is a grey layer with a fuzzy edge, it’s stratus cloud and again it’s a flat sheet at a higher level than the cumulus layer. The third layer is altocumulus, a third sheet at a higher level again. The stratus is semi-transparent near its fuzzy edge, you can see a higher layer through it.

The fourth layer is cirro-stratus, white and stretched out from side to side. And the final layer is cirrus, stretched fore and aft, at right angles to the cirrostratus below. So much going on at different levels in the atmosphere!

It’s very clear that things that seem really simple (the air above our heads) can show complex patterns of behaviour. That’s a good lesson to learn for life in general.

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Image of the day – 15

Going against a designer’s explicit instructions is always asking for trouble. In this example, the blunderer was dismissed.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

Well, what happened here? This is Blunder Lock on the Thames and Severn Canal at Stonehouse. When the canal was being built in the late 18th century, the engineer failed to follow the designer’s instructions and excavated this lock to an incorrect depth. For this and other issues, the engineer was later dismissed, and the lock became known as ‘Blunder Lock’. It’s a quirky name, but a good one! Click the image to enlarge it, you’ll see the name board on the far bank.

Going against a designer’s explicit instructions is always asking for trouble. In this example, the blunderer was dismissed, lost the canal contract, and no doubt missed out on future employment opportunities. This is surely something we all need to remember – an object lesson that applies in all walks of life! Following engineering instructions; following national and international law; and, for those of us who follow Jesus, obeying his command to love.

It should go without saying that all of this applies only to instructions that are good, wise, and intended to generate good outcomes.

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Image of the day – 13

Rio faces south and there’s a large, nearly landlocked bay, so this view was taken from a west-facing vantage point.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

Most of the photos I post here are my own. But yesterday’s image was from NASA, and today’s is a stunning view of the sunset from Rio de Janeiro and came from Wikimedia Commons. If you need a good quality, free to use image, look no further, it’s an excellent place to browse around. You will also find free to use sound files, documents and much more.

At first I was puzzled that the details say this is a sunset. Rio faces south and there’s a large, nearly landlocked bay, so this view was taken from a west-facing vantage point.

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Image of the day – 4

While we were looking around the house, I spotted bound copies of ‘The Works of Ruskin’

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I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). It might be a photo I took, an image from Wikipedia, NASA, or some other open source, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

This photo is a shot of the Library at Lydiard House near Swindon. The house and the park around it are owned and managed by Swindon Borough Council as a facility for local people. It’s well maintained and well used for many indoor and outdoor purposes.

The house was built in the 17th and 18th centuries by the Tregoze family. While we were looking around the house, I spotted bound copies of ‘The Works of Ruskin‘, filling several shelves.

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Image of the day – 3

One of the five round houses built by the canal company for some of their lock keepers and lengthmen

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). It might be a photo I took, an image from Wikipedia, NASA, or some other open source, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

Cerney Wick round house (left) and me on the right

I take photos far more often than I am photographed. On 11th July I was out walking with two friends, and one of them took this photo of me. We were following part of the Thames and Severn Canal; the building at upper-left is one of the five round houses built by the canal company for some of their lock keepers and lengthmen. This particular round house is close to the village of Cerney Wick.

I’ve been posting a series on walking the canal, but I haven’t written up this section yet.

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