We are lucky in Derbyshire, that many of our ancestors chose to build their grand homes within the county. Indeed we are spoilt for choice….. But Hardwick, is I reckon, my favourite.
23rd June
(C) David Oakes 2021
After the rain, mist rises in the warming sun from the expanse of Hathersage Moor. Soon the horizon will clear to give apparent endless views over Derbyshire Dark Peak moorlands
Whatever your horizon…..
22nd June
(C) David Oakes 2021
Just before midnight yesterday, we crossed the Summer Solstice… so you might say that today is the first day of the rest of this year.
Yesterday, in anticipation of the Solstice, I posted an mid summers eve picture, shot 2 years ago. So as we can still celebrate the Solstice, todays image is one shot on mid summers eve some 6 years earlier.
The loan fisherman and I had stood silent, just watching the sun vanish beyond the horizon, waiting for midnight. Despite the midges it was a magical moment. I suspect that the afterglow remained to be subsumed by the dawn that would soon follow. After all Scotland may not be the land of the midnight sun….. but certainly the next best thing. Not that I waited for the dawn…. sleep beckoned.
21st June
(C) David Oakes 2021
Mid summer…. the official time scale for the UK is, today the 20th June at 11.32pm.
Hard to think at times, that half the year has already vanished….. and just think, its now all down hill to Christmas.
Always found it strange that summer, has in reality only just begun, and officially its Mid summer with the best of summer yet to come.
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20th June
(C) David Oakes 2021
A cool courtyard on what had been a very hot day in Seville.
19th June
(C) David Oakes 2021
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