Monday, July 7, 2025

Debris.

A solitary buck follows the tractor tracks through the barley field down to the sea. We can just glimpse his head and ears as he runs. This is the third time we've seen the youngster since we returned from York. Is he making his own way in the world or has he become separated from the small herd that calls these coastal fields  home ?


In town a few remaining signs of the weekends festivities.


Beer and champagne bottles outside chapel hint that this is where the party revelers had their last stand.


On a window sill some unopened cans of a  Mango and Strawberry flavoured soft drink with a mysterious  'Popping Boba' ingredient. What is 'Popping Boba ?' You know you're getting old when even soft drinks become unrecognizable. From the description I can only imagine it must be like drinking frog spawn tea. 'The Font' ( unhelpfully ) points out that this is yet another sign I'm turning into my grandfather.


A blast from the past on the radio this morning . It must have been a revolutionary sound when the song was first released :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2L84dvoag

Ghanaian funerals :https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/ghana-funerals-coffin-dancers-regula-tschumi

A quick burst of Mozart :https://youtu.be/FZ6vUVT6HTM?list=OLAK5uy_mbJhnsm67o5vmhSy06F5nuCrMjhYTAv_k

Someone said this was a place to escape the heat of Manhattan : https://thesixbellshotel.com/

'The' summer exhibition :https://www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr/en/homepage


6 comments:

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari Om
You mean you didn't encounter 'bubble tea' in Japan? All the rage, those popping seeds that resemble tapioca... YAM xx

Lisa in France said...

I really love that shot of the stag making his way down to the shore. "Boba tea" is flavored tea with large tapioca balls in it. It's massively popular in Japan. "Popping boba" seems to be something different, some sort of spherical membrane that cracks and contains fruit juice. Sounds nasty. We first encountered tapioca bubble tea more than twenty years ago in Taiwan, where it originated. It was pretty good then, and we can still find traditional boba in, of all places, Cannes, including in my daughter's favorite purple sweet potato flavor.

Travel said...

I agree, it sounds like frog spawn, and I am old enough to be grandpa!

Anonymous said...

The popping boba soft drink sounds nasty, but I’m certainly too old to be a judge. I loved the photo of the “Scottish dancers” at the Ghanian funeral. And I loved the shot of the lone buck walking to the beach.
JoAnn in Maryland

rottrover said...

We have been seeing a young doe on our evening walks. Same thoughts, though; where is the rest of the family?

Stephanie said...

Bucks do tend to separate from the main herd at some point, sometimes forming bachelor groups. This mainly occurs during rutting season. I'm not sure at what age but we see it with our local Roosevelt elk when they are fairly young. It's a beautiful photo.