Photo Advent - 1st December 2018

[byslantedlight]

I have so got out of posting to lj, and I hate that - so here's another attempt to do something about it. *g* My original plan was to have a go at a Photo Advent of Christmas-ish pics, and then I remembered scene_again, and then I thought I'd add those posts too, just to see the difference over the years...

"...this fine first of December, under an unclouded sky, and in a room full of sunshine..." William Cowper, 1789 (Buckinghamshire)

"Towards dark, a colourless fog, snow almost gone, and ground soft-oozy underfoot, as though the earth's skin slipped as you trod. A very dark night: no wind; church bells dinning, and myself chilly and afraid of the misty evening." George Sturt, 1890 (Surrey)

2009

A frosty morning - that's the top of my car, of course, and then a frozen puddle on the walk to work! Got all energetic and walked back too, the long way around the roads - very quiet, and the moon was sort of misted up, quite strange really... Little Car said that it was 0C all the way to work, and then only 3C on the way home - coldness! Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)

2010

When I left for work this morning, the crescent moon was hanging thinly in the sky, and on my way home the sun set in a giant fiery orange ball... (Unfortunately it was very cold this morning, and I completely missed the sun itself with my camera, but I did catch the colour of the sky and the snow on the ground!) Byslantedlight, 2010 (Cambs.)

2016
On the bright side, it was very cold and pretty outside today, even through the deep fog. Frosted webs everywhere, the original Christmas decorations!







And this is what the fog looked like from my mate's place, just before book group - ah, streetlighting!

2018
Grey-clouded and not cold today - though it's December, so not exactly warm either. There was rain in the morning, but it took itself away and turned out to be a good night for the village's tree-lighting ceremony, followed by mince pies and mulled wine in the church afterwards. They tried for carol singing, but it somehow didn't really happen. Attention was elsewhere, on being a village, somehow.
So not quite as cold this year as in previous years, I see!

Comments

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

Great shots, all of them. :-)
Today (now yesterday) we had our first real snow here in Vienna.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's nice to remember that I quite like posting photos, when I have the time (sort of) and space to do it!

And wow - snow in December! In Vienna! That sounds perfect... *g*

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Great pics! And a nice way to reminisce other Christmassy moments from the past... :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm always worried that scene_again will vanish because no one's posting, so if nothing else I thought it might be a way to save the posts I made there!

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Yay, another post!
I love the quotes, and your fotos are amazing and so much fun to see these moments in time!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, it's been so loooooong! Turns out I need lots of space in my head to post to lj, and family and friends and travelling takes up most of the space left over from working! But I remembered how much I like posting photos too, so maybe I can find some space in between work and moving house, now... *g*

And thank you! scene_again was really fun, and I do worry that it'll vanish and I'll lose all the posts I made there. So maybe I'll keep cross-posting and adding to them, even after Christmas... *g* It's kind of interesting to see where I was back then - and where other people were too! *g*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are spectacular! Here in the Smoke it's weirdly and almost disconcertingly mild - practically warm, and in December, does not compute - so we haven't seen so much as a hint of hoarfrost yet. Thank you for the wonderful photos past and present!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - thank you! The frosty ones from a few years ago can't really help being spectacular, I think - cold weather has some compensations!

It's supposed to be 13C here today - and wow, I see it's 15C in London! As you say - does not compute! Though I suppose it's easing me in gently from being in warmer climes and coming back to winter! I shall cross my fingers for a turn for the frosty though - maybe once I've moved house, just before Christmas, it could snow... *g*

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

How fabulously atmospheric your photos are! You certainly have an eye for the dramatic. The Book Club foggy view from your mate's place is superb, but my fave has got to be the 2018 one of the trees silhouetted against the blue sky. Wonderful!

I also loved "the crescent moon was hanging thinly in the sky," because you're not just a fab photographer, you're also a fab writer.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like the 2018 trees photo! I must admit I really like it too - I took it from a cafe-type place in the middle of nowhere, listening to my friend's husband's band playing jazz, and it was all very atmospheric! *g*

And shucks - thank you! I need need need to get back to writing, somehow... maybe this will be a wee start! *g*

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures - thanks for sharing. We've got ugly rain here - your touch of winter frost was most welcome to see this morning!

[cyanne]

Lovely pictures. It's freezing here, pictures of frost are beautiful but being out in it isn't quite so much fun for me. You've really captured some stunning images, I like them all but the 2016 closeups are my favourite.