Wednesday, 7 December 2011

A View From a Lane.

No need for the torch on tonight’s walk. The sky was clear and the moon nearly full, and today’s gales had subsided by then.

Sarah’s cottage looks splendid when the full moon is in the southern sky. It’s stucco rendered and painted a very light yellow, so the moon lights up the gable end brilliantly while leaving the eastern aspect in shadow. It evokes those old Victorian woodcuts and reminds me of my favourite ghost stories by MR James.

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