Wednesday 2 January 2013

Down the Lane in 2013

My first walk in the lane in 2013! I used the dramatic setting on the camera for all the pictures apart from the rainbow. The dramatic tone seems to sum up the weather we've been having just lately - moody swathes  of mist and cloud rolling in from the sea. Intense light and dark. The rainbow was already beginning to fade by the time I'd raced upstairs to retrieve the camera. It was dazzlingly bright and beautiful.
There is an old shed in the lane precariously perched on the edge of a steep bank. Each winter more planks of wood drop off it, and each winter the shed  grits its teeth and holds on - for how much longer I wonder?

13 comments:

ADRIAN said...

WOW! What a rainbow.

Dartford Warbler said...

You were lucky to catch that double rainbow!

Beautiful landscapes.

Happy New Year!

Mac n' Janet said...

Spectacular rainbow, you do have dramatic weather.

Down by the sea said...

Your photos do look so dramatic and as everyone else mentions that rainbow is amazing!
Sarah x

old_black said...

I love that shed! To me it symbolizes what I imagine to be the constant battle between people and the environment . . . that "will I survive another hard winter" sort of question. (Although I imagine that you take a very different perspective, which is why you're living there and I live in a perennially temperate environment!)

S. Etole said...

What great photos; they do look dramatic.

A Garden of Threads said...

Isn't a double rainbow double the luck. It is so beautiful and you live in a stunning country.

rachel said...

What a lovely start to the new year!

Linda said...

Grey skies look so much better in the country! I've been struggling to find anything to photograph since returning to the city from Moray. So I'll enjoy looking at your grey skies rather than mine!

Fee said...

I recall pictures of this shed! It is symbolic of life, planks fall off visibly but surely invisibly a million small lychen-like organisms are strongly attaching the remaining parts to the hill!
Beautiful images. Thank you.
Fee

Anonymous said...

WOW that double rainbow is breathtaking. Happy New Year Annie!

Lucille said...

I'd have been tempted to row out to try to catch that point under the rainbow. I've never seen one so vivid.

Charlotte Watters said...

Hello Ann! Happy New Year! how lovely to see your blog, what beautiful photos, nice to see the landscape!
We are really enjoying Bristol, I have studio in town which is great and there are lots of locations to draw! cheers all the best Charlotte

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