The Third Column: From Lucy - THE SKY LAST SEPTEMBER for SKYWATCH

From Lucy - THE SKY LAST SEPTEMBER for SKYWATCH

I took this photograph last September. Today is a day precisely like it - so why take another?

What specially interests me is that, when I took it, I was taking a photo of the branches. Now I am posting it for Skywatch and it seems 'just right'. Interesting how the reason for a photo influences how you see it.

I posted this photo first on Pictures Just Pictures on 16th September 2009

Skywatchers may also like to take a look at the photo of the Portland Bill Lighthouse which I posted here a couple of days ago. I was planning to use it today but liked it so much, I couldn't wait. (No discipline round here!)

16 comments:

lazyclick September 17, 2009 at 7:38 PM: Fantastic shot of the blue sky.
3c September 17, 2009 at 7:46 PM: And, welcome is such a blue sky after a grey summer.
Diane AZ September 17, 2009 at 7:47 PM: The sky looks beautiful through the lovely branches in the foreground.
Photo Cache September 17, 2009 at 8:46 PM: i love the image, it is framed beautifully and composed well.
Rune September 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM: Great photo, beautiful colours!
mrsnesbitt September 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM: Stuff evolves!

When were you uo North?
Always a welcome on moors lass! Dxx
betty-NZ September 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM: Really nice!
BPOTW September 17, 2009 at 11:52 PM: Nicely done!
Jim September 18, 2009 at 12:46 AM: Interesting contrast.
Sydney - City and Suburbs
Rajesh September 18, 2009 at 2:36 AM: Fantastic shot. The blue sky and the lovely tree is a nice composition.
Amanda September 18, 2009 at 3:16 AM: Wow I love it. I love how close the tree branch and leaves look and how perfect the day is! Happy SkyWatch =)
Regina September 18, 2009 at 3:41 AM: Such a lovely sky!
B SQUARED September 18, 2009 at 1:32 PM: I completely agree with you.
J September 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM: I'm glad you have the big view at top - because for some reason I'm particularly taken with the lichen on the branch....
Janice / Dancing with Sunflowers September 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM: Beautiful blue sky, but I was attracted to come and look by the large, slim view you have in your sidebar and think it looks particularly autumnal and lovely cropped that way!
Janice.
3c September 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM: Hello Diane AZ and Photo Cache and Rune. I'm really pleased you liked the September sky and the branches. I find it an especially warming picture. Autumn has some nice browns - but its blues are brilliant too!

Mrs Nesbitt - I used to live in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and loved it - so Yorkshire was in the south from my point of view! (Going down to Teeside seemed quite a 'venture!) I left Newcastle in 1984 - and still miss it. Wonderful place, friendly people, lots to see and to do. (I think it's changed a lot in recent years. Dare I whisper the word 'trendy'?)

Hello Bettyl and BPOTW, J Bar and Rajesh, Amanda and Regina. B Squared too. This certainly is an international gathering!

J - the lichen is the thing which 'makes' this photo for me. I'm pleased you noticed it.

Hello Janice at Wildwood. It's interesting using the sidebar in this way. I don't choose which bit of the picture shows, it just happens. Sometimes it works - and sometimes it looks so odd I take the image away. I too like this version. (But, then, it highlights the lichen!)

NEWS FROM WESTBURY

New World War I Exhibition at the Visitor / Heritage Centre at Westbury (in Wiltshire)

From Philip Brown

The Westbury Visitor Centre opened a new exhibition on Saturday 1st August which features local material on the First World War. It was opened, in full WW1 uniform, by local expert Steve Williams. With materials from the villages, post cards and other ephemera from local collector Derek Whale, models and kits from the Gas Cupboard and archive material from the Centre itself.

It also has pictures and details of local war memorials. Though planned for many months, the exhibition has been given even more relevance by the recent death of several WW1 veterans like Harry Patch. It seems appropriate that we should remember their bravery and sacrifice whilst local soldiers are fighting in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The exhibition will run until October and is free to view.

What's over the top? This is what Hermes and Debbie asked when I showed this photo on 'Pictures Just Pictures'.

. . . This is what you see when you come over the brow on this stretch of path.

Portland Harbour - where the sailing events for the 2012 Olympics will be taking place - and Portland in the distance.

Not that I recommend you take your eye off the path, or you'll be tumbling down here.

Over and over, people make new paths as the old ones crumble away;

higher, then higher . . .

So that's what I do now - take the higher path, in case that next edge is ready to tip.

There are lots of little coves below; each one protected from the waves by boulders. They loop in and out like a lace edging.

Gorse burns - and there's a lot of gorse round here. This fire was recent; the smell of burning so strong it may still have been smoldering. On the way back, I met women bringing buckets of water to put out a smaller fire before it spread.

Picture Just Pictures readers may recognise the remains of the World War Two Gun emplacement on the beach. (The round shape.) 'Now The War is Over ' and 'Fallen Wall'.

This is another photo from Pictures Just Pictures, 'Rusted Rails Near Ferrybridge'. This is where the path I was on meets with the route of the old line to Portland. When I first walked here, the tracks had been lifted but there was nothing but broken stone under foot. It has a tarmac surface now and lots of people walk or cycle in and out of town along it. Great! Except I feel a bit churlish. It was nice to be here when hardly anyone else was!

This is the Causeway to Portland. I'll show you what it's like to walk along there sometime . . . coastal plants and all!

From Lucy

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