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With Ratcliffe-on-Sour Power station looming. It's now quite some time... (more)

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An early hour, because I had started a recording of the new Dawn Chorus, which... (more)

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Another glorious dawn to make lockdown endurable

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In the Odessy Homer has a favourite metaphor "emos d’erigeneia phane... (more)

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18 phone images stitched into a 66Mb image 9081x7487 panorama with Microsoft... (more)

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The sun peeking through the trees of a snow-floor'd plantation

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It snowed yesterday, and was heavily frosty overnight. This track became... (more)

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The daylength is creeping forward now, and I get a different sort of brightness... (more)

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The early morning sky silhouettes the leafless tree

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Taking the dogs out just after 07:00

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A pale duck-egg blue, and a shade of pink I haven't seen for a while. The... (more)

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At the dawn of the day, and the dawn of the year, the Honeysuckle wants to be first.

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Viewed at 8:15am, local sunrise today, December 21st 2020, the shortest day of... (more)

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Viewed at 8:15am, local sunrise today, December 21st 2020, the shortest day of... (more)

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Mercia Avenue, overshone with backlit clouds as dawn advances.

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The dawn behind Beech Avenue is vivid. Most of the orb of the sun had risen... (more)

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A view taken at Canary Wharf looking up the River Thames towards Central London,... (more)

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The first signs of sunrise are just appearing.

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Two jackdaws watch a vivid dawn sky from their grandstand perch on a telephone wire.

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Storm Darcy left behind an easterly airflow, and temperatures fell. We got a... (more)

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After heavy overnight rain, the clouds cleared and a mist rose in the dawn.

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Emily Smith House is seen here on a chilly morning in late November, shortly... (more)

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Early morning with the streetlights still on.

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The local Lime tree at dawn on Christmas morning, skeletal in the murk.

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Another free light show just before sunrise.

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The predawn sky in Beech Avenue, as the clouds from Storm Barra begin to be... (more)

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In the meteorological year Winter runs from December 1st to the last day in... (more)

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I am not well enough to walk the dogs today. Just one picture of the dawn,... (more)

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Despite the old saying, Saturday turned out to be a nice day - perhaps there... (more)

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A few minutes after the spectacle of TF0820 : Another morning, another day the whole thing had changed.... (more)

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The weather forecast says that temperatures are going to rise like a rocket, so... (more)

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This outbreak of wintery weather featured a phenomenon I have not heard of... (more)

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"I've had enough of all this Picturesque stuff. Look up there, a... (more)

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The light of the world is the Sun, here announcing its splendour by spreading... (more)

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Dawn coming up like the fireships of Cadiz in 1587

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A stitch of 3 images taken before the sun comes up.

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A strange sight, this tree with three incredibly long horizontal branches only... (more)

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A muddy trail left by the deer heading between Bourne Woods and the open farmland.

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The low cloud cover means there is no bright horizon today, just distant bright... (more)

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The bare woodland edge backlit by cloudy dawn, a sickly pale yellow instead of... (more)

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The dogs and I are used to early mornings, and maintain our schedule even though... (more)

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From the works of Arthur Conan-Doyle: “It's a very cheery thing to come... (more)

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As I walked the dogs the street lights were going out, but here in Kingsley... (more)

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Piercing the low cloud of a winter's dawn, The rising sun rolled back those... (more)

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This morning's sky was worth recording.

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In the lull between storms Isha and Jocelyn the day was calm after overnight... (more)

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a sudden chill after a night of rain, and a light mist swirled.

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