It was light when I set out for my evening walk tonight but I hung around a bit in the peaceful coolness of the field hoping to catch a beauitful sunset.
As it happened it wasn't one of those nights when the sun throws up violent splashes of pink and red and violet all over the sky in its nightly protest at being drowned behind the hill, but I liked a couple of the shots anyway:
Look at this one - looks like a gold star affixed to a piece of very good work!
Spectacular. How did you get it to do that for you? Special sun goddess powers?Absolutely! What else could it have been
Last night on my walk I met a wise countrywoman and we had such a lovely chat, the only two people, very small, in a vast valley of grass and trees, extending right to the distant smoky rim of the Malvern Hills 6o miles away on far horizon. She told me that the rather attractive, very faint, hazy pink glow at the bottom of the blue sky-bowl was pollution - ! though I did wonder if it might be a cloud of volcanic ash particles, turned pink by the fading sun.I bet you were right. Nice to think that a major force of nature is coloring the landscape, instead of anything manmade.
There is a major thoroughfare in Richmond, Virginia, the state capital, which is named Malvern Avenue. I always think it interesting to find the connections the colonists made between their previous British homes and their new settlements on this side of the Pond.
We were in costume, dancing at Aldie Mill yesterday, for their 200th anniversary. And the gent who built that mill, whose last name was Mercer, was kin to the folks who built Aldie Castle in Scotland. If you go to read about Aldie Castle, you find mention of "Lady Lansdowne". And there again, Lansdowne is the township where our main county hospital is located.Interesting star pic. The hazy pinkish glow is octarine, the colour of magic. Just ask Terry Pratchett. The colour of magic ! I like it
I always think it interesting to find the connections the colonists made between their previous British homes and their new settlements on this side of the Pond.
Oh absolutely. Very interesting, about Malvern Avenue! Malvern is a most interesting small town perched on the side of the hills, quite unlike anywhere I've ever been. mr Merry plays bowls there in winter, and I always mean to go with him for the ride, and Christmas shop in those quaint hilly streets with their views down to to the valley, but always seem to find something else to do at home when the morning comes. Oh and it has a fabulous theatre. Which we visited in 2008Lansdowne has local connections near me, with Lansdown being a suburb of north-west Bath, and Lansdowne Hill being the site of a battle in the English Civil War in 1643. It's a shame the Royalists eventually won that war although we did hang onto Parliament. We wheeled out the old granny again today for the 56th time with The Queen's Speech.
