Photo Advent - 1st December 2018
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byslantedlightI 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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!
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!
