1738/16th March 2023
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Here you have twelve hours in a nutshell!
There is something special about Winter’s sky.
But I have to take you back to where we had just left the dentist on Wednesday. In the short hour that my appointment took, the scene had already begun to change.
We drove back through Cambridge on our way to Greenwich.
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How pretty the Presbyterian Church looked.
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The “pillar house”, I call it.
It’s an effect you see often here. A bit odd, but then…
Mine are indoors, holding up the peak of the roof, atop a half-wall that divides the living room. It works for us.
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Plain front is much more attractive. (My opinion.)
Snow cascaded from the trees.
The drive looked very different this day.
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The ubiquitous corn rows…
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Is it inappropriate, I asked myself, to so enjoy the effects of a storm that damages, destroys, kills and injures?
Perhaps it would be wrong not to see the extraordinary beauty of such a violent act of Nature?
There are always those opposites:
Black/white, day/night, sorrow/joy, life/death
Perhaps we should not celebrate, but we must notice.
We must pay attention.
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Greenwich
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Returning from Greenwich, we noticed a bank of cloud.
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Many trees had shaken off their frozen coat.
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Building cloud made the light even more harsh.
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Inevitably, there were crows having a conference!
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Another weather change!
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Though looking back the other way…
Arriving home, we found the Sparrow tree looking a bit downcast.
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3 hours later, blue skies returned. Sparrows swarmed to their tree which was looking better already.
The hedges, though, are in sad shape.
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The day was drawing in, the Sun casting long shadows:
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Our view looks west, but sunset can still be spectacular.
In all it’s many stages.
Night night World!
Dear Carolyn, could you please get the writing on your post working as today many lines were not clear, just tiny bit of the bottom that would not give any idea what it is you are describing. A beautiful living room, is this yours? I could admire the sky and trees but without your words I missed something important, I am sure. Thank you!
Joanna
Interesting. I will have a look. I don’t recall doing anything different but thanks for letting me know.
PS. I like the title!
Joanna
Brilliant pics of winter. And loved the two pillar pics!
Am I seeing things? Or not seeing things? I cannot see a single cat in your living room!
No doubt all sleeping elsewhere. Sophia is the only one always in the living room and she keeps her head down!
Beautiful photo of the church, the trees with snowflakes hanging from the branches like bells, the sky that keeps changing and the beautiful colours … wow Caroline, you captured it so beautifully!
Yes, life cannot pass us by unnoticed, right?
I love the snowy sunset in the last photo, with the pink skies. But it makes me feel cold just looking at it.
Best wishes, Pete.