Photo Advent - 1st December 2018
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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!
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"...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!
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Date: Saturday, 1 December 2018 11:38 pm (UTC)Today (now yesterday) we had our first real snow here in Vienna.
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:27 am (UTC)And wow - snow in December! In Vienna! That sounds perfect... *g*
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:28 am (UTC)I'm always worried that
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:26 am (UTC)I love the quotes, and your fotos are amazing and so much fun to see these moments in time!
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:31 am (UTC)And thank you!
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 08:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:33 am (UTC)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*
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:15 am (UTC)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.
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:35 am (UTC)And shucks - thank you! I need need need to get back to writing, somehow... maybe this will be a wee start! *g*
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Date: Sunday, 2 December 2018 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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