Lovely picture. Good job you're not a shepherd.

As a child int the 'wilds of Yorkshire'........red sky in the morning was an indication to severely cold weather and snow....today it is different...!

If we have snow today it is because Richard went shopping for new clothes.......... OH YES HE DID....the first time in decades!

After been told to lose some weight after his op........he looked a mess in clothes that were far too big!

So we could be in for snow drifts !


Mrs EU

Is it an omen? What next I wonder, perhaps a two-headed calf will appear in the east, or something equally spooky. Mind you, shepherds don't do cattle do they?

Off topic (but connected to the sky): have you seen, Dr North, the National Archives' Blitz bomb map? You'll know better than me (and them) if it's accurate.

http://bombsight.org/

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I have a very good lady friend who is convinced that the 21st, Winter Solstice, will be a 'realignment, an adjustment' of the planet.
She is joining a bunch of others who will be on top of Winchester Hill to greet the new dawning sun and pray for peace an all....



P.S. Down 'ere in 'Ampshire, "Red sky in morning, sailor take warning." meaning that the good weather has passed and you got trouble coming over the horizon.

Very nice but don't forget the world ends next wednesday. 12/12/12.

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight,
Red sky in the morning, global warming. (Do-Ha)

As I said to Richard this am -its pearl harbour day --well depending on which side of the Int date line you stood or floated.
I cant remember if there was a red morning but i well remember my mum getting my brother and self out of bed for school -pitchdark outsiede _9 with fullo blackout summer time on) then mon am here.She told us that America was now in war . A few days later came the POW /Repulse disaster and being told that
Boring I know .but what the hell
Richard,s fault super pic

Brian then 7 and 11/12

Very nice, techno. Thanks for sharing. Very evocative. Pictures like these have a timeless quality and at the same time cause one to wonder what events these scenes have witnessed over time: what wars, invasions, insurrections have these fields seen, how many young men have marched through them to an uncertain fate. All that aside, I do like the pictures.

Hope you see this late reply. I've been wrapped up in work for the last month or so.

The timeless quality of the images is entrancing. The mist and dew have come and within a few hours will have gone time upon time without measure. The abiding quality of the land is humbling to us mortals. To illustrate: here, in this thin slice of Virginia, I have stood where Pocahontas, Captain John Smith, George Washington and your currently reigning Monarch have stood: not all at once, but in the same spot: their visits where staggered out a bit. Actually, I have shared the same seat at the same table (but not at the same time) with Barak Obama only I sat there first. I'm not saying that he deliberately sat at my favorite seat at my favorite table; I'm just mentioning that that was the case .

I do not despise the thoughts of cavemen (if there ever was such a creature). I think that it is an open question as to whether we have evolved or devolved from them. Looking at pictures such as those you posted helps to make clear that time is remorseless in it's march with differing effects on those who witness it. The mists and the dew evaporate in a few hours. We live a few score of years and then are gone. Even the land that we look upon is consumed by time. I know that I am given to moralizing and reflection. Dr. North once encouraged me to get off my high horse. Well, it isn't that high a horse: not when put in perspective.

The thing that I really enjoyed about your photographs and descriptions is the opportunity to experience the setting as if I had been there at that time. That and the information about the setting were quite welcome.