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Colour, Glastonbury, Nature, Photography, Wildlife

New Life

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Following yesterday’s post, some more evidence that spring is definitely here. Not from my back garden this time, but from a recent wander.

Amongst the desolation, there was still the vaguest of hints that something new, something big, was coming. She wandered through the ruins and rubble, and stopped beside a pile of stones. The barest glimpse of colour among the greyness had caught her eye and she had to go back and check.

Yes, there it was, a tiny blossom, subtly pink, tiny yellow stamen that reflected the weak sun’s light.

She felt a tear run trickle down her left cheek, clearing a path through the dust and dirt she new she was covered in. For the first time is weeks, no months, the tear was a happy one. This tiny bloom, this tiniest of blossoms represented something she had not encountered in a long, long time.

Hope.

Colour, Glastonbury, Nature, Photography

Change

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One of the things about the current situation we are all finding ourselves in at the moment are the changes that are happening to the way we do things, the way we work, the way we live.

Shops – the few that remain open – are opting for card payments, rather than cash. Businesses are finding ways to work with staff working from home. Television and radio channels are streamlining their workforce (BBC Radio sharing news reports, rather than having individual ones, for example) and using classic television (repeats) as a focus for their prime time programming.

While we are in an emergency situation, I do wonder if the new normal will be a permanent replacement for the old normal when this is all over. Will these emergency changes become commonplace post-Coronavirus?

To take part in the current Mass Observation Project post on ISOLATION:

  • Take a photograph based on the theme of ISOLATION, however you want to interpret it.
  • Email the image to adayinphotographs@outlook.com by Wednesday 1st April 2020.
  • Images should be a maximum of 650 pixels wide.
  • Include your name, website/blog address and a short note about the image, including where it was taken.
  • Come back and see the results on Sunday 5th April!
Colour, Glastonbury, Photography, Wildlife

Glastonbury Spring

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As with much of the UK, Somerset has had a pretty damp start to the year (in fact, it’s chucking it down yet again as I type). But, grey clouds notwithstanding, there are signs that spring is on the horizon, and so for my second ode to my new home, I thought I would post some budding new photographs.

(Click on an image to see a larger version and scroll to the bottom for some information about a new post!)

Even on the darkest of days there is a hint of brighter things to come, and he knew this gave him an advantage he would be able to press home. He could show her that things had changed, that he had changed.

He knew that the temptation he had given into has been ill-advised – no, more than that, it had been the stupidest thing he had ever done! – but she had hinted that there was the slightest of opportunities, the tiniest glimmer of hope that he would be able to rectify the damage he had done.

The “slip” – that was what they had taken to calling it – had happened last autumn, and this new spring gave him the hope, the push to start putting things back together again…

It’s time for a new Mass Observation Project post too! With everything going on in the world at the moment, the next theme is going to be ISOLATION.

The idea, as with previous MO posts is to:

  • Take a photograph based on the theme, however you want to interpret it.
  • Email the image to adayinphotographs@outlook.com by Wednesday 1st April 2020.
  • Include your name, website/blog address and a short note about the image.
  • Come back and see the results on Sunday 5th April!

Images should be a maximum of 650 pixels wide.

Thanks! 🙂