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December Month of Extraordinary Light

“Above the cloud with its shadows is the star with it’s light”
— Pythagoras

December was a month when I noticed beautiful light. Light is more precious during the winter when the days are so short and often, like today, so murky that it seems as if there is no daylight at all.

Three days shone out for me in December. On the first I visited the Christmas Tree Festival at the medieval church of St Thomas in the centre of the city. Different organisations and charities decorate trees in a multitude of ways and the results are stunning.

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What absolutely made the whole thing was the afternoon light streaming into the church and casting a golden glow

The medieval 'Doom' fresco was rendered vibrant by the light

The second day of extraordinary light was just before Christmas. We had friends staying and took them on a trip to explore Cranborne Chase a little known but amazingly beautiful part of North Dorset. The weather forecast had been poor so we were delighted to find a sunny and slightly misty day which made the countryside look magical. 

The village of Ashmore the highest point in Dorset

We ended the day in the Saxon hilltop town of Shaftesbury watching the sun go down

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The final picture in this set is Gold Hill, made famous by the Hovis advert and the Oliver Read / Julie Christie version of Far From the Madding Crowd in the nineteen sixties.

For the the final set we're off to Brighton for our post-Christmas visit to my 94 year old mother-in-law. It was freezing cold and blowing a gale but I ventured down to the promenade to capture the sunset - and boy was it worth it!

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The final photo of the post is a tad grainy but I like it because it shows both piers, The West Pier in the foreground and the Palace Pier now known as Brighton Pier. You can also make out  the starlings that gather there every evening.

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tags: Brighton, Shaftesbury, Ashmore, Salisbury, Christmas Tree Festival, Doom Painting, sunset, west pier, Palace Pier
categories: Photography, travel, Nature, architecture
Sunday 01.21.18
Posted by Barbara Evans
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So This was Summer!

We spent our summer in the UK mostly at home or on the Isle of Wight with the odd day  trip. The exception to this was a trip to Norway with my 94 year old mother-in-law to visit family. 

I should like to share my favourite photos  with you.

Dorset

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“Rime Intrinsica, Fontmell Magna, Sturminster Newton and Melbury Bubb,
Whist upon whist upon whist upon whist drive, in Institute, Legion and Social Club.
Horny hands that hold the aces which this morning held the plough
While Tranter Reuben, T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells and Edith Sitwell lie in Mellstock Churchyard now.

Lord’s Day bells from Bingham’s Melcombe, Iwerne Minster, Shroton, Plush,
Down the grass between the beeches, mellow in the evening hush.
Gloved the hands that hold the hymn-book, which this morning milked the cow
While Tranter Reuben, Mary Borden, Brian Howard and Harold Acton lie in Mellstock Churchyard now.

Light’s abode, celestial Salem! Lamps of evening, smelling strong,
Gleaming on the pitch-pine, waiting, almost empty even- song
From the aisles each window smiles on grave and grass and yew-tree bough
While Tranter Reuben, Gordon Selfridge, Edna Best and Thomas Hardy lie in Mellstock Churchyard now.”
— John Betjemin
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The first three images and the title image are Corfe Castle, the others are Lyme Regis

Oslo

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“Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it’s changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water’s edge.”
— Jo Nesbo
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Åsgårdstrand

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“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul”
— Edvard Munch
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Isle of Wight

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““Any man from America or Australia might take one glance at the Island as something on a map, and then decide to give it a couple of hours.

But you can spend days and days exploring the Isle of Wight, which, if you are really interested, begins magically enlarging itself for you.””
— JB Priestly
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East Lambrook

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“‘Nowhere in the world is there anything like the English cottage garden. In every village and hamlet in the land there are these little gardens, always gay and never garish, and so obviously loved. There are not so many now, alas, as those cottages of cob or brick, with their thatched roofs and tiny crooked windows, are disappearing to make way for council houses and modern bungalows, but the flowers remain, flowers that have come to be known as ‘cottage flowers’ because of their simple, steadfast qualities.’”
— Margery Fish
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tags: Oslo, Munch, Margery Fish, East Lambrook Manor, quotes, John Betjeman, JB Priesty, gardens, Jo Nesbo
categories: Photography, Poetry, Nature, travel, architecture, Gardening
Monday 10.09.17
Posted by Barbara Evans
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