Misty morning’s web
What a beautiful morning! The mist was beginning to rise and left behind drips on the fencewire, and droplets on a spider’s web.
Waters, Ann - her children at her funeral
Ann Dawson (1857-1940) married Robert Waters (1855-1932)
| Child | Born | Died | Spouse | Born | Died | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Waters | 1880 | 1954 | Alfred Charles Nettle | 1877 | 1954 | |
| Julia Waters | 1882 | 1973 | Albert Gustave Scheef | 1876 | 1953 | |
| Ann Waters | 1884 | 1955 | James Frederick Nelson | 1884 | 1970 | |
| Sophia Waters1 | 1887 | 1959? | James Rogers | 1884 | 1960 | |
| Martha Waters | 1889 | 1961 | Edward Ernest Elliott | 1884 | 1950 | |
| Edith Waters | 1892 | 1971 | Alexander (Alec) Henderson | 1888 | 1986? | |
| Ernest Edward Waters | 1894 | 1965 | Miriam Florence Sewell | 1892 | 1979 | |
| Robert Arthur Waters | 1894 | 1971 | Rachel Ann Sewell | 1894 | 1952 | |
| Cecilia Jane Waters | 1898 | 1992 | Jethro Joseph Sewell | 1896 | 1964 |
Pre-deceased by daughter Margaret Waters (1879-1905)
Clarence Victor Waters (1904-2002) was mentioned as a son of Ann but he was actually son of Sophia (born “out of wedlock”?)↩︎
Recipe for stewed rhubarb
I quite like some stewed rhubarb on occasion instead of fruit atop my porridge in the morning. Here’s my recipe for stewing rhubarb.
Ingredients
- 500g rhubarb
- 40g brown sugar (8% of weight of rhubarb - use more sugar if you prefer less tartness)
- 20g butter (4% of weight of rhubarb)
Method
- Wash then slice rhubarb
- Turn cooktop to low heat
- Melt butter in non-stick pan
- Add sliced rhubarb and sugar
- Stir frequently
It takes 10 to 15 minutes to “stew” depending on how thick you like it. Remove from pan when it’s to your liking.
Store in container in ’fridge.
I usually spoon about 75g on top of my cooked porridge (along with 60g of natural yoghurt, and a sliced banana).
Sliced rhubarb
Pan with melted butter, and sugar
Add sliced rhubarb and stir to mix
Stirring now and again
… and it now looks like stewed rhubarb
The previous 10 days’ photographs
Being the end of the calendar, academic and financial year at work, things got a little hectic in tidying projects up before I started 3 weeks leave. There wasn’t much time for photography or audioblogging!
Here I give an audio commentary [4.9 Mbytes, 9 min 14 sec duration] to accompany the photographs of the previous 10 days. Note:
- The audio commentary is also distributed as a podcast.
- The download a podcast you need to use appropriate aggregator software that knows what to do with enclosures and subscribe to my RSS2 feed
- The photographs are also included within the .mp3 file. View them via Apple’s iTunes artwork function on a PC or Mac, for example.
This audio post attempts to tie up those photographic loose ends before the end of the year. Next year will bring a new telephoto zoom lens and with it, I hope, a fresh eye on old and new subject material.
Rosy Hyacinth Orchid
The solitary specimen of Dipodium pulchellum (until proven otherwise), the Rosy Hyacinth Orchid, has at long last flowered. The flowering has helped to identify it - it’s not, as best I can determine, a Dipodium variegatum. The latter’s flowers are more self-coloured rather than spotted or mottled.
Here are three views of the orchid. The light was fading and the wind was rising (a thunderstorm was approaching). The images are not as sharp as I would like but better to have some images than none (due to the risk of storm damage - last night’s storm had wind gusts up to 75 km/hr).
Centre of the flower section.
View of the top.
A view of the top half of the orchid.
This lizard, luckily for it, was sitting on the opposite side of the road as I drove over the hill.
Frilly-necked lizard
The lizard let me get within 30 cm (1 foot) of its head. They can bite (but more usually just scamper off). Those spines on the edge of its neck frill look evil. At this close-up range the scales on its skin are quite evident. The lizard was about 40 cm (16 inches) long, plus some for the tail. The colour of the gravel road and the lizard reflect the harsh light and the heat of summer.
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