Nature notes....

The recent activity on this blog has been predicated largely by my growing sense of despair at the direction this country seems to be heading..... (out of Europe), and the direction The United States of America seems to be heading..... (to Hell).

A vicious, puerile, ignorant, badly educated, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic agenda is on the rise.........

Bad Moon.........

It is perhaps a little overdue, but timely, to remind myself that while my ability to affect any of these events or alter any of their courses is negligible, some things are immutable.

Viz:

Photo taken yesterday morning by Jackie, through the cat-flap, while this one perched on our neighbour's cratch cover.

Jackie's photo again. This is Swan, (of our local breeding pair Flanders and Swan), on dawn patrol.

Mine this time. Max telephoto lens from the back deck towards the lock caught this fisherman unawares.

Dawn: Summer.

Dawn:late Winter early Spring...... ish......

Summer: local showers........

Layered sky.....

Sunset.

Supermoon

Jackie/Sunset Photobomb

A feather from The Dove of Peace, anointed by an Angel's tear, drifts slowly by and away...........

Beyond the Blue Horizon (By Michael Nesmith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8f5a5nXnfk

So there you go: twelve photos. Twelve months. Shitty year..........

But all the above were taken from Pippin's deck or hatches (with the obvious exception of the last, which features the eponymous Widebeam in the background.)

Nature will instruct us.

No matter how bad we try to make it, Nature will always offer us consolation.

There is beauty yet, for all that we do that is ugliness............

Take heart!