Soft

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

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Stop and appreciate

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)

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Good for them!

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

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Awaits

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

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Captured

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.

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Caress

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

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Lovely

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

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Captured

I was captured while capturing a most marvellous sunrise.

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