Monochrome Sunset

Well almost. The iPhone saw more colour than I did! 

Cottage Industry

Decades ago I made 1/6 scale military maps for use with action figures in that scale, based on originals from my collection and a few from friends. They sold reasonably well at swapmeets. I'm about to put some 1/6 figures and vehicles up for sale online, so I thought I'd also list one of each set. I'd run out of some sets so I sat down to make up the missing ones, folding up little maps from the batch I'd already trimmed to size years ago. Using the box full of examples to remind me how each map is folded again.

 

Rainbow

New Edition

Tiny little saplings are emerging from the earth in a flowerpot.  They're new purple shamrocks, this year's edition.

purple shamrock - oxalis pourpre - klaverzuring

Ferns Unfurling

Newest development in the garden is the ferns coming out. From dry brown cut-down clumps fresh green leaves are unrolling into the sky. It's a marvellous and somewhat prehistoric sight and happily we have plenty of them.

fern - fougère - varen

Pinball

I took my French brother-in-law out for dinner and pinball as a birthday prezzy (he'd discreetly let it be known he'd like that). So after a good meal and very pleasant conversation we got to work on the collection of the Brussels Pinball Museum.
The Terminator 2 machine above is a good one I'm somewhat familiar with as it used to belong to my brother - after moving house he didn't have a suitable spot for it anymore and it kept needing work so he let the museum provide it with suitable lodgings.
Other than that there's plenty of other machines of various ages to try - recommended!

Info here if you want to play too.

It's Back

And showing its back when driving up. Out of hibernation it's up on its trailer again, ready for its mysterious activities.