Day 29 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Contrast, suggested by @gregmoore

Light and dark.

A lit road at night

Day 28 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Workout, suggested by @rom

Always worth it, but quite a workout. Haleakala crater.

View of Haleakala crater

Day 27 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Embrace, suggested by @mroutley

Returning to the UK, I always feel the embrace of the British landscape.

The Downs in Bristol

Day 26 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Belt, suggested by @annie

Taken in a small restaurant/bar in Kyoto in October 2016. A few beverages in view.

Japanese men sitting at a bar in Japan. One is smoking. A half drunk glass of beer sits nearby

Day 25 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Flare, suggested by @matt17r

Autumnal light.

Sun shining through the leaves of an autumnal beach tree

🤫 Sitting quietly.

Day 24 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Belt, suggested by @allaboutgeorge

The only belt that I brought with me on this trip. Better than the last one though, when I forgot to bring one at all. Then there was a lot of hitching up of my trousers until I bought a belt.

Belt sitting on a pair of jeans in a draw

Day 23 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: A Day in the Life

Out walking in Bristol, England today.

Blackboy Hill in Bristol on a Saturday afternoon

I took this photo this morning while having breakfast and have only just looked at it. It’s a striking sunrise, even if I say so myself, with the cloud formations as well. Bristol, England.

Sunrise over Bristol, England with wispy cloud formation

Day 22 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Road, suggested by @jomalo

An old road maybe, running through the fields above the cliffs near to Ho’okipa, Maui

An old road maybe, running through the fields above the cliffs near to Ho’okipa, Maui

Day 21 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Fall, suggested by @pcora

A Horse Chestnut leaves start to change colour as Fall approaches. Bristol, England.

Fall colours as the leaves change on a Horse Chestnut tree in Bristol

Jet lag sucks, and I find that there is something settling about sitting quietly while the world outside sleeps.

🥱 Up early, did I go to sleep(?), for a jet lag informed breakfast.

Day 20 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Disruption, suggested by me, @crossingthethreshold

I had no idea what I would post when I suggested this subject for a photo, but settled for snow in Portland from when we lived there in 2013.

Snow on the streets of Portland, Oregon in 2013

🌧️ It’s pouring in southern England right now. On my way down to Bristol from Heathrow airport.

Celebrating 60 years orbiting the sun. This time in a hotel at San Francisco airport. On my way to England this evening.

Birthday cards beside my bed at a San Francisco airport hotel

Day 19 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Edge, suggested by @rnv

Two edges. The horizon and the west coast of the United States last night, just south of San Francisco.

Looking towards the horizon as I approach and see the US west coast, just south of San Francisco, flying in from Maui

We safely arrived at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at SFO, and there were two bottles of Prosecco and a box of chocolate biscuits waiting for me. Tomorrow is my birthday. Thank you Hyatt Hotel for recognizing tomorrow and celebrating with me on the road.

Tomorrow onto the UK to visit my mother, a visit that I had to cancel back in June as I was so ill.

Day 18 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Fabric, suggested by @adam

Rolls of indigo fabric. Chikugo, Japan.

Rolls of indigo fabric. Chikugo, Japan

Day 17 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: intense, suggested by @rori

The noise from these mechanical looms was intense, as in loud. They were weaving indigo cloth. Hirokawa, Japan.

A small factory of mechanical looms, weaving indigo cloth, in Hirokawa, Japan