Tag: mist

7 December 2020

I spent the afternoon on Eggardon Hill – the changing light and mist looked very enticing as we drove there, but shortly after arrival, it thickened and darkened and it felt very definitely wintry. We were hoping for a glorious sunset at this eastern end of the Marshwood…

16 June 2020

… when the living is not exactly easy for all sorts of reasons, but is certainly simpler – and sometimes, quite wonderful. Unable to sleep, I got up just after sunrise and found lots to enchant me just a few minutes’ walk from home. Despite the hour, it…

23 July 2019

We are promised a heat wave and thunderstorms, but today started absolutely perfectly. I woke early and was out walking by 6:30 in the cool morning mist. It was one of those times when I realise just how many millions of spiders I share the world with –…

25 September 2018

Warm sunny autumn days are too precious to waste, so when I looked out the bedroom window and saw mist lying in the valley, I quickly got dressed and went out for a short walk with the camera. I’m so glad I did – it was one of…

2 June 2017

I realise I’m very lucky to live where I do. Today I felt especially privileged on a misty summer’s morning, when I stopped three times on the way to do my weekly shop to take stock of my surroundings. What is this life if, full of care, We…

1 December 2012

It was such a glorious winter morning on the way to do my weekly shopping, I made a point of stopping on the way for a short walk. This scene presented itself for just about a minute before the mist engulfed the whole of Colmer’s Hill – a…

21 June 2010

A friend and I went up Pilsdon Pen to watch the midsummer sun rise. Despite a very chill breeze at just after 5am, we were rewarded by this wonderful view to the south, with the Marshwood Vale draped with early morning mist. Like many rural areas, the vale…

11 April 2005

This wind-bent row of beech trees, planted in Victorian times, is one of my most-photographed subjects, just a minute’s walk from the house. There used to be five, but one fell down a few winters ago, and the remainder are looking increasingly moribund. Here they are on a misty…