Morgan's Hill (Sunday 30th October 2016)

I visited the Waterfront Gardens in Marlborough again on Sunday and had a chat to Val. Its micro-meadow has just been featured in a book (How To Make A Wildflower Meadow by James Hewetson-Brown) and the gardens recently won an Outstanding award in South West In Bloom for the second year.

Three swans and a heron had visited in the morning and a flock of grey wagtails had been singing on the wing in front of her house. While I was there I saw a kingfisher fly from the wall of the café beyond and flash down the river and round a corner. This was at 1610 hr and the light was already failing so I didn't take any pictures there.

As I drove back along the A4 the sky began to turn crimson and became more dramatic the more the sun set, so I pulled into a lay-by nearby to the road to Yatesbury to try to capture it.

On the horizon you can see Morgan's Hill's longbarrow hidden by a copse with the familiar Lansdowne Monument on its left.

L.
2.11.2016 (1602 hr)

Blip #1958 (#2208 including 250 archived blips)
Consecutive Blip #000
Day #2411 (453 gaps from 26 March 2010)
LOTD #1193 (#1319 including 126 on archived blips)

Sunset series
Landscape series
Lansdowne Monument series

Taken with Pentax K-1 and Pentax HD P-D FA 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6ED DC WR lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math (2016)
From the album Emotions and Math.

One year ago:
Bowood 2015 #46