Marine Court on St. Leonards-on-Sea seafront (East Sussex, UK) – an Art Deco apartment block built between 1936 and 1938 and modeled on the Cunard ocean liner Queen Mary.

Seafront at St. Leonards-on-Sea featuring Marine Court, an Art Deco apartment block. +1

Seafront at St. Leonards-on-Sea.

Ginger testing the water at St. Leonards-on-Sea — We have a few days to explore and this is where we ended up on the first day. Five-minute read.

Fox — seen on the way to visit my brother. +1

HMS Prince of Wales — Today is our last full day at Gunwharf Quays. We took a stroll along the Millennium Walkway to pass the time and were there to watch HMS Prince of Wales leave Portsmouth Harbour.

Interesting things happening in front of our hotel — We were fascinated by the construction of this miniature golf course going on below our hotel window.

What Gare Bears might wear in the woods — With the emphasis on might. Well actually, might not. We had a good laugh though.

Fish & Chips and a couple of pints at The Still & West — A pint and pub grub on our first evening in Pompey.

Ginger, Gary and the Spinnaker Tower — Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth.

London Heathrow, T5 — I love buildings like this, and we spent ages looking at the construction details.

Heathrow T3 from our hotel — The hotel’s sound insulation was very impressive. 2

To all appearances, we might still be flying — Good flights, an excellent connection, and we zipped through border control in the UK in minutes. Down in Baggage Reclaim our bags were first on the carousel, and our hotel was just a short (inside) walk from Heathrow T3 Arrivals.

Ginger watching the dawn at 30,000 feet. We are off on the first leg of a trip to the UK. Our first visit since 2019.

Early evening on an Ozarks farm road — It’s all looking very lush and green. Nowadays this road has a lot more traffic than it used to. One-minute read.

Last of the sun — The last of the sun was catching the trees behind the house.

Four deer — They were about 100 yards away and very interested in what we were doing, which just happened to be, watching them.

Another Hat — I bought myself something with a large brim that was also lightweight and airy for the summer.

Cleome houtteana – Spider Plant — Last year, less than half a dozen of these plants appeared in the front yard flower bed. Ginger collected the seeds and sowed them. This year we have been rewarded by this spectacular display.

Photograph of four leather journals with fountain pens and ink.

Journals and Ink — Four journals, four pens, one pencil, and three bottles of ink. I felt the need to take a picture, and this is what I came up with.

I’ve been shopping — It looks like a lot, but at 2-300 rounds per trip to the range it won’t last long. Now I’ve just got to find space to store it all in the gun safe.

Mammatus clouds over Springfield — We’ve had some weird weather lately. I heard about a house being hit by three tornadoes in the past month (around 30 miles from us). This week, we were on the edge of a storm that, according to the radar, was dumping twenty-five inches of rain per hour. +2

Journal: Two days solo backpacking in Hercules Glades Wilderness, April 2024 — I decided to get out for a one-night trip to Hercules Glades. Apart from our Eclipse Trip I’ve not been out this month. An overnight stop at my camping spot near Deep Hollow would be just what the doctor ordered. Journal: 2   8

It’s that trail cairn again — By one-thirty I had camp squared away, and I started an uneventful hike back to the trailhead. +2

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