Roosting, Twinkling

There is a whitish pigeon sleeping outside my front door. I thought it was an ornament! But it moved very very slightly...

I don't have a picture of it.

Today is the 8th May. That is Gottschalk's birthday, and the day Ethel Smyth and Luigi Nono died (not the same year...)

For the last four days, a giant mechanical elephant and a giant little girl have been performing in London, near Trafalgar Square/Piccadilly/St. James's Park. Not only do I not have a picture of it, I didn't even see it!

This is something I have seen, many times. It is the constellation Orion (Orion the Hunter) which is the constellation I most easily recognise in the sky over England. (Photo credit: Matthew Spinelli)