Category: Nature
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View from the window: Meteorites!
I noticed three red-tinged shadows dancing across the wall before I heard the popping and sizzling sounds coming from outside. I looked through the window and saw that the Grinds had also been transformed into a vast realm of redness; the sky too wasn’t its usual colour. Suddenly, from out of the blue (red) three…
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The Lions of the Grinds
So there I was, at the old Stone Gateway at the far end of the Grinds, face to face with a pair of lions. They didn’t seem to be particularly bothered that I was there, instead they sat, staring forwards… well one sat, the other lay. If they didn’t blink on the odd occasion, I’d…
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Creepy!
Can you see it? Creeping about? Here’s the colour-popped version of the picture. Any clearer? Here’s a slightly different angle. The shadow should give it away. This chap was minding his own business until I spotted him creeping hither and thither… having my mobile phone with me, I had to take a shot or two…
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One Minute Ramble: Nature in close-up
I was wondering what to post today, when I noticed this chap perched without a care in the world on top of the iron gate. Aha! I thought… a nature-photo post: He must be a celebrity ladybird as he turned to face the camera – well, mobile phone – once he realised what I was…
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Lights and Sounds in Eerie Wood
Stars shine brightly through the canopy of branches, leafless on a warm Summer’s evening. The ground around is parched and dry, yet the trees, all of these trees in this wood, look more suited to a Winter’s scene. There are leaves, scattered here and there, but they are outnumbered by the volume of stars above…
The Mansionic Perspective 