Spinosum

Today is a beautiful gentle rain day and my Bear cannot work in the vineyard although he would happily pick grapes in the rain ... And as I haven't yet learnt to upload text (things have changed a little over five years  :)) I am adding something I wrote earlier this year while resident at my son's farm (which is also my permanent address although I am rarely there).  Ogg is another aspect of me - Ogg on Rain Days Ogg loves rainy days, particularly soft rain days – “mercy rain” is how she thinks of it (Ogg can be quite Shakespearian at times).  Ogg also likes to take long walks in the rain Without An Umbrella which is considered Very Bad M...

I am back - seeming unreal because after wandering I have returned to the village of Solkan where I live in a tall, yellow painted house across the road from my former green shuttered (green door) cottage. And what have I been doing in five years?  At first I thought nothing much, certainly nothing creative - but not so in reality. My teaching days are over, I was forced to retire due to age last December but lurked until my project group, with whom I had worked with for three years, presented their final scientific report (about trees naturally).  Thereafter, I spent a month in China during which the Oggness of me surfaced significantly a...

well ... I came across to the classroom in Italy to tackle more ArchGIS stuff for a report ... and instead spent this afternoon looking at the Galleries of my Watchers ... learning much in the process.  My sincere and humble thanks to all my Watchers, most of whom have galleries of much greater worth than mine.