Monday 18 June 2012

Evening Concert and Sightseeing.

It wasn’t the chattering of the birds that kept me entranced tonight, but the discordant bleating of a hundred sheep in the field near the wood.. I’ve noticed before that they become very vocal at some point during the twilight, and this evening they were giving a veritable concert with each different voice raised in unison to the setting sun. A bovine version of Cwm Rhonda, no doubt.

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There was one of those mountains of characterful cumulus cloud in the northern sky – the sort that’s white and fluffy on one side, but painted pale orange on the side that’s facing the yellowing sun; and that side had faces standing out of it in shades of grey. It wouldn’t be entirely fanciful to suggest that it looked a little like Mount Rushmore. Or maybe it would.

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