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A cool cloud

24 Tuesday Jan 2023

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cloud, contrails, fall streaks, feather-like cloud, types of cloud

I had no idea what type of cloud this was but, luckily, one of my fellow local birders is much more knowledgeable about such things. Peter wrote: ‘I think they’re fall streaks from a contrail where ice crystals drop out of the cloud and get drifted by the winds aloft. Normally seen dropping from cirrus or other high-level clouds.’

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As the cloud drifted overhead, it came to look more and more like a magnificent gigantic feather. (The photo below was taken with my phone, which is why the colours look a bit different from the photo above.)

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Soggy and foggy

30 Wednesday Nov 2022

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cobwebs, fog, foggy day, water droplets, water droplets on webs

It was soggy and foggy all day here but I did have fun photographing water droplets on cobwebs. What’s that they say about small things amusing small minds?

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I can’t decide whether I prefer the first shot, with the yacht and the pier in the background, or the second, with just the droplets. Opinions?

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Leaves as lungs

07 Monday Nov 2022

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fallen leaves, leaf art, mud, muddy leaves

I’m not actually a fan of mud. It clings to my shoes, leads to more frequent clothes washing, makes pathways impassable, occasionally causes me to slip and slide and fall over on my backside. But, when I noticed a patch of fallen leaves lying in mud, I rather liked how they looked, how the mud helped to highlight the veins. And, when I got home and looked more closely at my photographs, this one leaf looked to me like a lung. And so I manipulated the image, cropping the photo then flipping it horizontally and pasting the two parts together. Et voilà!

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Frosty

12 Wednesday Jan 2022

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frost, frost on plants, frosty leaves, ice on plants

It felt like proper winter this morning, with a hard frost that left everything covered in tiny shards of ice that sparkled with miniature rainbows when the sun caught them.

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The big wet

19 Tuesday Jan 2021

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flooding, reflections, reflections in water, reflections of trees, surface flooding

We’re half way through Storm Christoph – it drenched much of the country last night and is forecast to blast us again later today and all of tomorrow. It’s times like these I am thankful I live in a town that’s mostly built on a clifftop, though even here the heavy rainfall has caused surface flooding on the already sodden ground. I can enjoy the reflections but my thoughts are with those much less fortunate.

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Freezing

09 Saturday Jan 2021

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birding, black-headed gulls, British birds, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, frozen lake, wintry weather

We’ve been experiencing sub-zero overnight temperatures over the past week or so and, some days, when the cloud or fog is particularly thick and dense, the daytime temperatures have also been very low. Still, I was surprised to see, on Thursday’s walk, when freezing fog had rolled in off the Bristol Channel, that the west lake at Cosmeston had partly frozen over. The birds looked a little confused by the conditions as well.

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329/366 Raindrops …

24 Tuesday Nov 2020

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moss, raindrops, raindrops on moss

… on mosses.

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309/366 Seedheads, 4

04 Wednesday Nov 2020

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British wildflowers, seedheads, seeds, water on seedheads, wet weather

If you thought I’d exaggerated about how wet last month was, it’s official – Derek, the Welsh BBC weatherman, yesterday tweeted that ‘October was wetter than average in Wales with 208mm of rain’. Temperatures and sunshine were also below normal, and, having just returned from a long local walk, I can tell you it’s very squelchy out there. Still, the wet has its compensations as today’s seedheads testify.

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262/366 Webs

18 Friday Sep 2020

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cobwebs, fog, spiders' webs, water droplets on webs

It was early Tuesday morning and the landscape was muffled by a dense layer of fog but there was magic happening in the fields, amongst the plants, as the power of fog droplets illuminated the industrious efforts of the spider kingdom.

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256/366 Bespangling dew

12 Saturday Sep 2020

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autumn morning, dew, dew on feather, dew on seedhead, morning dew

‘Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.’

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‘… the childhood of the day has kept,
Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
Come, and receive them while the light
Hangs on the dew-locks of the night’

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~  lines from the poem ‘Corinna’s Going a-Maying’, Robert Herrick, Hesperides

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