The clouds and rain finally cleared this afternoon, giving me an opportunity to capture a summer sunset. Summer sunsets don’t have the flashiness and colour of their spring and autumn counterparts, but they’re still worth watching. The crop in the foreground is peas, not something we see a lot of up here.
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A typical summer’s day
The croft on a lovely, Scottish mid-summer’s day: dull, overcast, drizzling, cold and misty. It was almost dreich, but that would need a fair helping of misery as well. And we’re not miserable. ARE WE? .
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A well-rinsed sunset
We’ve had heavy rain showers all afternoon, the sky has been heavy with cloud and the minutes before sunset were wet, dismal and dark. But as I prepared to go out to check the chicks and piglets, lock up the chickens, and walk the bounds, the Other Half walked to the window and exclaimed, “Look [...]
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27 July, 2011


