A Year At My Back Door.

2012-01-16T23:33:00.000Z

5pm

An quiet, unremarkable day.

2012-01-13T23:30:00.000Z

6pm

A mild and sunny day.

2012-01-08T23:28:00.000Z

5.40pm

What glory greets the one who stops and looks.

A sunset that lingers, as though for our pleasure alone.

2012-01-05T23:24:00.000Z

1.30pm

A slightly different view:

a brisk walk up the windswept beach.

2012-01-04T23:19:00.000Z

3pm

A haze of rain falls all day.

2012-01-03T12:32:00.001Z

11.15am

After a stormy night.

2012-01-01T12:27:00.000Z

5pm

New Year's Day.

2011-12-30T12:25:00.000Z

11.10am

2011-12-22T12:21:00.000Z

5.30pm

My favourite kind of day.

2011-12-02T12:15:00.000Z

9am

Rose-tinted and lovely at dawn.

2011-11-19T12:11:00.000Z

11.55.

A gloomy day ahead.

2011-11-10T21:29:00.001Z

9am

In the morning a strange cloud hangs over the marsh,

casts the reeds in yellow light.

2011-10-31T21:22:00.000Z

5.50pm

A damp day gives way to a cool Halloween eve.

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6pm

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6.45pm

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6pm

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5.45pm

Each day oscillates from the day before,

from gloom and rain to hot wind and glorious sun.

The tussle of summer and autumn.

2011-10-13T22:28:00.002+01:00

2.50pm

Oh glory that is late summer haze

and mountains bathe in milky pools.

2011-10-01T22:41:00.001+01:00

7.30am

We awaken to find we are lost in a silvery mantle of rain.

All day.

Finally.

2011-09-24T20:42:00.002+01:00

7.15pm

A balmy, sunny day,

and then as dusk gathers round us....

Swallows.

2011-09-24T20:38:00.001+01:00

7.30pm

The beginnings of a chill is settling into the earth, into our bones.

Autumn has crept in the door and lies at our feet now.

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2011-08-02T23:16:00.000+01:00

9.10pm

All day the rain eludes us,

skirting the mountains,

the warm air damp with it's unfulfilled promise.

2011-08-01T23:10:00.000+01:00

9pm

Darjeeling days,

warm rain,

and the clouds graze the mountain tops.

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2011-07-08T23:40:00.000+01:00

8 July. 9.30pm
Finally the rains begin to recede, and as the sun dies,

from behind the mountain the dragon appears once again.

2011-07-06T23:32:00.000+01:00

2011-07-02T23:23:00.000+01:00

11pm

Like an indomitable mother, summer shakes out the clouds,

shoos away the chill, and proudly presents the perfect day.

2011-06-29T23:13:00.000+01:00

9.40pm

The sun bursts, bleeds into a sky that speaks of dragons.

2011-06-28T22:38:00.000+01:00

8.30pm

Contumelious cloudbursts aside,

the sun persisted.

2011-06-27T22:30:00.000+01:00

9.30pm

The sun, it seems has returned,

yet so unexpected the day is almost done before we realise.

2011-06-23T23:33:00.000+01:00

11.30pm

The day insists on lingering,

unwilling to give in to night.

2011-06-21T23:00:00.000+01:00

8am

Summer Solstice.

Rain.

2011-06-20T22:56:00.000+01:00

6.50pm

All day the rain comes down.

2011-06-18T00:25:00.001+01:00

8.25pm

Before the rain, the heavens roil and fall.

2011-06-17T00:24:00.000+01:00

9.45pm

2011-06-01T00:22:00.000+01:00

9.25pm

2011-05-26T11:03:00.000+01:00

9.pm

After the rain blows away to sea.

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9.15pm

Sunset.

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8.45pm

2011-05-13T20:13:00.000+01:00

9pm

An unexceptional day ends with a delight.

2011-05-12T22:23:00.001+01:00

7.15pm

A brighter day with tentative sun and a bit of bluster.

2011-05-10T22:21:00.001+01:00

9pm

Another day of showers ends in glory.

2011-05-09T22:18:00.000+01:00

8.50pm

A cooler day.

Rainshowers.

2011-05-05T22:16:00.000+01:00

6.45pm

Rain.

Finally.

2011-05-02T20:25:00.000+01:00

9pm

At times I wonder if it is possible to ever tire of such generous, unending beauty?

2011-04-30T20:17:00.000+01:00

8.35pm

This glory never ends,

but merely slips away for a spell,

to give the night it's turn.

2011-04-28T01:16:00.000+01:00

8.30pm

It seems that we have trapped the sun

for every morning she is there,

shaking out her parasol,

combing out her golden hair.

2011-04-25T07:31:00.000+01:00

8.20pm

When will this glory end?

Sun, sun, and yet more sun.

2011-04-23T07:28:00.000+01:00

9pm

Another glorious day ends in an enraged sunset.

2011-04-21T07:26:00.000+01:00

7.45pm

After a perfect day,

the sun falls to earth like a comet.

2011-04-19T22:44:00.000+01:00

8.20pm

A day that was stolen from summer.

2011-04-18T22:39:00.000+01:00

7.55pm

A beautiful day.

We think it may be summer....

2011-04-17T20:58:00.000+01:00

8.50pm

A most lovely day.

2011-04-16T20:56:00.000+01:00

8.30pm

The morning misty rain soon faded away,

but the day that followed proved rather dull.

2011-04-15T20:44:00.003+01:00

8.20pm

An undecided sort of day,

with warm sunshine, chilly sea mist, and a slow burning sunset.

2011-04-11T20:53:00.001+01:00

6.50pm

Rain all day and then, at the last moment, the sun.

2011-04-08T20:19:00.000+01:00

7.44pm Sunset.

A most clement day..

2011-04-05T22:53:00.000+01:00

Dusk.

The morning chill gives way to a balmy afternoon.

2011-04-03T21:14:00.000+01:00

8pm

A bright day with warm sheltered sun,

but a slightly chilly breeze.

2011-04-02T21:07:00.001+01:00

4.15pm

A dismal morning gives way to blustery sunshine.

2011-03-31T20:53:00.001+01:00

A gusty, gloomy day.

2011-03-29T22:30:00.000+01:00

1.30pm

And so, the ebb and flow of spring continues.

Today the cold has returned.

A mizzling sort of day.

2011-03-27T22:29:00.000+01:00

Sunset.

Another perfect day.

2011-03-26T17:47:00.000Z

9am

All day the mountains hide in a lingering gloom.

The air cold on our faces.

Today summer is nowhere to be found.

2011-03-24T17:42:00.000Z

6.30am

For almost a week we wake to glimmering dawns that promise perfect days.

Summer takes our hand.

2011-03-20T22:35:00.000Z

6.30pm

The Equinox.

A perfect, balmy day.

2011-03-17T23:17:00.000Z

5.45pm

St. Patrick's Day

and the sun shone.

2011-03-15T23:06:00.001Z

6.50am

Oh silent dawn, speak to me of the day.

2011-03-14T23:13:00.001Z

5.15pm

The week rolls by, a haze of blue and sun and chilly air.

2011-03-09T19:40:00.000Z

6.30pm

The evenings lengthen, the light lingering just a little.

The rain blows in from the mountains and away out to sea.

2011-03-06T21:08:00.000Z

5pm

A cooler day today, curlews ringing in the blue air.

2011-03-02T08:56:00.000Z

7.10am

Sunrise.

Endless days of hazy sunshine, stilly air.

The slumbering land heaves and sighs,

pushing up moisture, filling itself.

2011-02-25T08:50:00.000Z

Just before sunset.

Countless days of bright sunshine and glowing dusks.

2011-02-21T09:22:00.000Z

5pm

By evening the day finally rains itself out.

2011-02-19T19:33:00.003Z

5pm

Last night's mist burns away to give a bright, warm day that holds Spring in its palm,

then, as evening falls, it slowly fades, the mountains melting into moisture before our very eyes.

2011-02-18T19:25:00.000Z

5pm

Eventually the rains, which have hung low overhead all day,

arrive in a slow, loomy drift.

2011-02-14T23:15:00.000Z

5.15pm

A bright sunny day that precedes torrential rain.

2011-02-11T17:54:00.000Z

5.30pm

All day a misty rain fell, cloaked us in softness, a soft day.

And then! Through the window, oh most glorious, unexpected splendor!

2011-02-10T16:22:00.001Z

4pm

Bright sunlight reluctantly returns,

bringing a steady creeping of light into the day.

2011-02-09T16:15:00.000Z

4.15pm.

Rain.

Rain for days.

2011-02-02T16:10:00.001Z

Sunset.

2011-01-30T21:54:00.002Z

5.25pm

A bright day that had a softness in it's breath, until dusk,

when the blue air stung with a bite in it.

2011-01-28T17:35:00.000Z

4.45pm

A splendid day where Jacob's Ladders climb across the seeping sky

and the sun begins and ends in a volcanic glory.

2011-01-25T14:03:00.000Z

9.45am

We awoke to rain on the rooftop,

all day rainbows chase the sun around the mountains.

2011-01-23T13:59:00.000Z

5pm

A cold, lovely day.

Sun bleeds into the evening sky.

2011-01-20T08:28:00.000Z

7.45am

A cold moonlit dawn.

The garden sparkles as though stars have fallen in the night.

2011-01-19T18:36:00.000Z

5.10pm

One of those days, those perfect days that dawns with a

full moon blue sky that betokens a day of hard, bright sun,

and ends with one that foretells a hard, bitter frost.

2011-01-18T16:26:00.000Z

4pm

A bright, cold day.

Molten sunlight caught in the reeds.