The last known tree in the Universe of Old Men

 

'The last known tree in the Universe of Old Men'
 George Roberts, November 2025. Software credit: INCENDIA NEXT.

When architects get very old, they design & build sustainable castles in the sky.

Our favourite constellation - Orion the Hunter in all his splendour.

 

Orion over St Michael's Church,
Oulton Broad, Suffolk.

The Constellation Orion showing emission nebulosity
associated with the Orion Loop and Orion's Dagger.

The Flame and the Horsehead Nebula
below Orion's Belt.

The Orion Molecular Cloud
and the Running Man Nebula
in Orion's Dagger

One of the most interesting constellations in the winter northern hemisphere sky. When we see Orion striding across our garden, as we look south, we know that Autumn and Winter stretch before us. It will not be long before it's Christmas.

Many thanks for the photographs, to Kurt Thrust and the team at the Jodrell Plank Observatory, the Uk's most easterly operational astronomic observatory.

https://jodrellplankobservatory.blogspot.com/

The Persistence of Time or I should have built a 'retrospectascope'

 

'When I had a fringe Salvador' - digital art by George Roberts October 2025

'Growing up'

I had no sibling, sister or brother

So I listened to Dad and Mother

 

But one day I realised

What they said was

Utter Bollocks!

 

I was often told at school

Not to play the bloody fool

 

But one day I realised

What they said was

Management Bollocks!

 

Grandees of Commerce and State

Agree it’s a sad but true fact of fate

That you need loads of losers

To make just a few big winners

 

But one day I realised

What they said was

Economic Bollocks!

Schrödinger's cat

 

Schrödinger's cat - digital art, George Roberts October 2025

Quantum physics is all very well but no one explains why Erwin Schrödinger' chose a cat to put in that box. He could have secreted a miniature Schnauzer or an okapi or even a badger in a sealed box but instead opted for a domestic cat. Can animals only exist in multiple states in boxes or would a tied sack have sufficed for this particular mind experiment?  

There is no accounting for taste in pet husbandry and packaging at the Planck scale!

Tartiflette

 

You will never regret 

Eating Tartiflette 

Although you may feel queezie 

Because it's all so cheesy 

Recurring Patterns or I wonder what I will do when I grow up?

 

'Free Form' - abstract digital art  - George Roberts. September 2025

When I was a kid, many moons ago, I remember using the difference in the viscosity of paint and water, to create swirly patterns on dipped paper.  Now, with the aid of fractal math and video editors to distort the resultant images, I am back doing the same stuff and making similar patterns, sixty or more years after, but this time in digital format.

Similarly, I still enjoy grilling fish on an open fire in our small backyard, just like my Iron Age antecedents did thousands of years ago. Nothing much changes in East Anglia.

Liquified

 

Liquified - digital art September 2025, George Roberts

Orchids began to melt 

Rain drops fell as steam!

The tiger adjusted its equatorial belt

And gibbons started to scream