25th July...

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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.)