Scene Again

Thought I'd post here cos I still come back to find pictures now and then, and see what the world was like, and I'm not sure how much inactivity it takes before a comm is deleted (more than a year I think, but just in case... *g*)

Plus - I was thinking about how big little tree had grown, and how my view was disappearing, and I came to see how true that was, and... yes! 2009 and 2014...

Granted, my 2014 picture should have been tilted slightly further up, but it's taken from the same place and zoom, and the big trees are pretty much the same size and all... what a difference five years makes! Spring looks a little further along for little tree this year too, though the big trees are at about the same place... Does the biggest oak look a bit more sparse, though? - and the field behind is bright green rather than winter-dry - presumably there was more rain this winter... *g*

25th July
"The water shines in the follows." Gilbert White, 1778 (Hampshire)

"We drank tea to-night before I left Grasmere, on the island in that lovely lake; our kettle swung over the fire, hanging from the branch of a fir-tree, and I lay and saw the woods, and mountains, and lake all trembling, and as it were idealized through the subtle smoke, which rose up from the clear, red embers of the fir-apples which we had collected; afterwards we made a glorious bonfire on the margin, by some elder-bushes, whose twigs heaved and obbed in the uprushing column of smoke, and the image of the bonfire, and of use that danced round it, ruddy, laughing faces in the twilight; the image of this in a lake, smooth as that sea to whose waves the Son of God had said Peace!." S.T. Coleridge, 1800 (Westmorland)


A beautiful summer's day - sunshine and shadows in Cambridge. Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)


Another gorgeous summer's day, just as there was three years ago - a red-sky-in-morning sunrise at around 5.20am... Byslantedlight, 2012 (Cambs.)

1884
"Bushes and short trees blown like the flame of a candle. Long-tailed tits on dead stems of willow herb 4ft. high. Rushes, half dead, half green.
"Never go for a walk in the fields without seeing one thing at least however small to give me hope, the frond of a fern among dead leaves." Richard Jeffries, 1884 (Sussex)

2009

Yet another grey day, and misty in the distance... Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)

2010
Here in Cambs., on the 8th January, 2010:

We started the day at around -3C, with snow for the crescent moon to shine on, and then we had snow, and then blue skies, and another flurry of snow, and then blue skies, and on into the night...Byslantedlight, 2010 (Cambs.)

2012

I didn't get out and take photos earlier, and the day is over already... all grey cloud, and a few soft drops of rain. Byslantedlight, 2012 (Cambs.)

"I was called up this morning before four o'clock. It was full light to dress myself: and so by water against tide, it being a little cool, to Greenwich; and thence, only that it was somewhat foggy till the sun got to some height, walked with great pleasure to Woolwich, in my way staying several times to listen to the nightingales." Samuel Pepys, 1664 (Kent)

"As we came down the lower slopes of the wooded hillside into the glade of the park the herds of deer were moving under the brown oaks and the brilliant green hawthorns." Francis Kilvert, 1876 (Herefordshire)



And at nearly 9.00pm there was still light in the sky, though some cloud too now.
Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)


Blue skies and fields of gaudy rape... Byslantedlight, 2011 (Cambs.)