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31/12/2020

Full moon rising, 30 December 2020

At home in sequential lockdowns during 2020, we take much pleasure in the beauty of sunrise and sunset, in moonlight and in rainbows. And we share the joy they bring with our neighbours. Our horizons shrink, our freedoms are curtailed but the natural world has grandeur and splendour and it is there for everyone.
So at sunrise and sundown I'm eager to see what these winter days may bring.

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The White Christmas of 2020

25/12/2020

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Christmas Day sunrise

2020 is declared A White Christmas.
On Christmas Eve there’s an icy wind from the North. The muddy track to Scout Scar begins to freeze. By Christmas Day puddles are iced over, the ground is hard but the wind has dropped so no wind-chill factor. And on both days there is sunshine and snow on the fells- hurray!

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Songs of the Sky: the Northern Lights

24/12/2020

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Sunrise, Christmas Day 2020

Christmas Eve: let us go, in wonder, into the realm of the imagination.
The Boreal forest was deep in snow. Rime-ice sunlit on birch trees. Herald of spring, a black-bellied dipper splashed in a stream with ice-fretwork. A male appeared, mated with her and was gone in an instant. Sunlit ice prisms floated in the air, translucent lozenges of ice, scintillating diamond dust.
The Spring Equinox 2006. I was in Arctic Finland and north-eastern Norway.

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Scout Scar: treasure trove

15/12/2020

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The Bright Field

The wail of ambulance sirens fades as I turn my back on the town and climb toward Scout Scar escarpment. Amidst the rain and December gloom there comes a day of wondrous light and I stand poised on the threshold of another world. Here is treasure trove, something of inestimable worth, and now to make it mine .

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December Days on Scout Scar

6/12/2020

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The Howgills sunlit in snow 5th December 2020

Saturday 5th December. Heading toward Scout Scar, we turned to look east and, behind us, the Howgills rose gleaming white with snow. To either side, the fells were streaked with snow but the Howgills had borne the brunt of the snowfall. It's not only snowfall that suggests the season- the low winter sun illuminates the earth distinctly. There is a hint of warm colour and texture too.

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Rainbows over Scout Scar

2/12/2020

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A morning of brilliance and louring cloud. Ravens glided and soared above Scout Scar escarpment, riding the up-draught. A dome of blue above, to the north a mass of inky cloud. Moments of light rain on the wind and a day of rainbows.
I love to see winter trees caught in sunlight against a dark fell. And the warm and subtle colours of winter woods.

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Dawn Ist December 2020, the first day of winter

1/12/2020

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Sunrise on the first day of winter

Ist December 2020, the first day of meteorological winter. And dawn was glorious. Carpe diem, seize the day. Seize the dawn, I say. Darkness over the town, with pin-points of light. And s spectacle of ever-changing colour and pattern. To the west. windows flamed with reflected brilliance- as if houses were on fire.

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At full moon

The White Christmas of 2020

Songs of the Sky: the Northern Lights

Scout Scar: treasure trove

December Days on Scout Scar

Rainbows over Scout Scar

Dawn Ist December 2020, the first day of winter

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