I greatly enjoy the gentle, soft illumination of our the sky- and land-scape before the sun rises..

I greatly enjoy the gentle, soft illumination of our the sky- and land-scape before the sun rises..

Sometimes we hurry from web page to web page, from place to place, in a controlled environment.
It is important to stop and appreciate the real world, the world we live in every day. That is why I try to spend some time outside every day – hot or cold, wet or dry, work or home. I usually (though not always) succeed.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

On a recent summer morning this towering cumulus presaged rain. Not for us, for fortunate others. Good for them!

On a hazy and very hot morning, winter wheat awaits the combine.

I stopped this morning to take a few photos. This one best captured the feel of the morn – very hot (26C), very humid, very still. A day and a landscape waiting for relief, for release, from the unusually long hot spell we have endured for almost a week.

A stand of last years’ teasel awaits the day.

Contrails form a reverse upper case E.
Back on Thursday.

Brilliantly lit contrails cross cross the morning sky while the land waits for the suns’ caress.

Three years ago today, this lovely sunrise was well worth stopping for.

I was captured while capturing a most marvellous sunrise.
