From my files.
Richard Feynman – The World from another point of view.
Shown when TV companies assumed that those watching, had more than
two brain cells.
“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird”
This video shows exactly why Richard Feynman was held in such great esteem for his ability to convey complex ideas in an easily understood manner.
Locked in or out ?
Locked in or maybe locked out ?
Garden Tulips.
Garden Tulips.
Always question certainty.
I have spent time during this isolation period, reading the CALTECH Feynman lectures.
He had an ability to make the most complicated subject understandable. Although he is famous for saying “if you think you understand it, you don’t!”.
‘We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty’ . Richard P. Feynman.
Makes a change from all the doom & gloom found in the media at the moment.
Jebel Akhdar.
A couple of days camping can blow the dust away (see previous post) as this is on the other side of the Jebel, looking towards the sea.
From my files – made at about 7000ft.
Sand storm.
Sand storm starting.
From my files.
When one of these storms arrive, it means everything gets covered in a fine dust, which takes days to clear..
No one visiting No2.
Abandoned and forgotten.
No one visiting.
Alone – no one visiting.
Social distancing.
Nikon F with Nikkor 25-50 f4 Ai lens.
When I made this several years ago, I had no idea that they were doing a practice run for 2020. Even the bird is obeying the required distance !
Rub al Khali desert.
Rub al Khali desert. From my files.
Where I would like to be at this time, not much chance of meeting anyone else.
The Rubʿal Khali is the largest area of continuous sand in the world.
Rock reflections.
Rock reflections.
From my files.
Rocks with wild grass.
Rocks and wild grass.
From my files.
Worried trees.
Out for a walk and even the trees are huddled together in their haste to get away from me in these troubling times.
Overhead Lines.
Overhead lines in fog – Clapton in Gordano.
A ramshackle bridge.
Ramshackle bridge.
Waiting for Spring.
Waiting for the warmer days of spring.
Onward.
I walked along this clearing until the wind got so bad that discretion was the better part of valour; falling branches might give me a nasty headache.
Not so straight lines.
Cold but dry.
Stand of trees.
A stand of trees on the horizon – it snowed a few hours after I made this. Unfortunately by the time the wind & snow stopped and I was thinking of taking another walk with my camera, the heavy rain returned so no more snow.
Early morning.
Pre-scheduled post.
Early morning walk before the rain returns, it has been a very wet couple of months, way behind with all the jobs we had planned.
Going out with a camera in the heavy rain is not my idea of fun !!!
Started doing some clearing of fallen branches, gathering plant pots that had blown away and generally checking things around the house, until the rain sent me back indoors. Have not even started on our static caravan at Castle Howard, at least we have avoided the floods that many people have suffered. Don’t tempt fate David.
It could be worse:-
1607: Bristol floods
Some 2,000 people drowned around the Severn Estuary, with 200 square miles of farmland inundated. Long blamed on a storm surge, it is now suspected that the devastation was caused by a tsunami.
1703: Great Storm
The Great Storm of 1703 was described as the worst natural disaster ever to hit southern Britain. Between 8,000 and 15,000 lives were lost and the lead roofing was blown off Westminster Abbey.
1891: Great Blizzard
More than 200 people died and Cornwall and Devon completely cut off from the rest of the country by a great blanket of snow that covered much of the two counties.
1953: North Sea flood
A severe windstorm over the North Sea combined with an unusually high spring tide caused a storm surge in both eastern England and Holland. Over 300 people died in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, and in Holland around 1,800 died.
1962/3: the harsh winter
From Boxing Day 1962 to March 1963 much of the UK was covered with snow. In January the sea froze for up to a mile out from Herne Bay and the upper Thames froze over.
1987: Great Hurricane
Michael Fish (metrologist on BBC) laughed off suggestions a hurricane was on the way. A few hours later 22 were dead, 15 million trees uprooted and wind speeds of 122 mph were recorded in Norfolk.
Info from Mark Piggott (IBTimes UK)
Life giving water No3.
Jebel pool.
From my files.
Life giving water No2.
Water provides life in remote parts of the jebel.
From my files.
Life giving water.
From my files – Oman.
A Tree.
A Tree.
