Saturday 24th January 2015, 11.05am (day 1,248)
Time for a walk. Watch Hill is near Cockermouth, Cumbria. This is my Zen landscape shot. More will appear on my walking blog in due course (probably tomorrow).
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Up In the gutter
Tuesday 25th November 2014, 1.25pm (day 1,188)
Yes, this really is as exciting as it got today. Looking for the good in all, I quite like the orange jackets against the brown November background, but I spent most of the day at home working and there wasn’t much to see.
Campus tree
Tuesday 18th November 2014, 10.30am (day 1,181)
A glorious morning. Well-Lit Moments On The University Of Manchester Campus, number n+1.
Above Haweswater (grass and dead bracken)
Thursday 13th November 2014, 12.50pm (day 1,176)
National Graphene Institute
Monday 10th November 2014, 9.25am (day 1,173)
The NGI is still under construction and is the building to the right of this image. The background is formed by the George Kenyon Hall of residence, which last appeared on the blog fairly recently, on day 1,133 (1/10/14).
The George Kenyon Building (and another tree)
Wednesday 1st October 2014, 9.35am (day 1,133)
September was balmy and mild, though not necessarily graced by good light, at least, not where I have been for the last couple of weeks. The first morning of October made up for this, however. Yes, OK, it’s another ‘tree on campus’ shot, but autumn’s here, expect more of this kind of stuff.
Tree and gate
Friday 22nd August 2014, 9.30am (day 1,093)
Maybe it would be a better shot if it was just the tree, or just the gate. But it’s what it is. Last day of a week spent mostly at home.
Scaffolding and tree
Thursday 20th February 2014, 11.10am (day 910)
Another campus scene. I am reminded of that Terry Gilliam short film at the beginning of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, when a Victorian office building swathed in scaffolding like this sets sail as the covers billow out in the wind. Does the hole spoil it? Maybe, but I left it in anyway.
Cherry blossom (definitively)
Wednesday 19th February 2014, 11.50am (day 909)
Now I said back in December that I thought I had seen very, very early blossom on the University of Manchester campus, but it turned out to be a winter flowering cherry. However, this, definitively, is traditional, spring cherry blossom in flower on 19th February; they are in the courtyard within my office building on the campus. Well, I said it’d been a very mild winter — unlike in North America where the Great Lakes are almost fully frozen, and very unlike last year here.
Apple blossom (in December)
Wednesday 18th December 2013, 11.25am (day 846)
Maybe I have seen apple blossom flowering in north-west England, in December, before. But if I have, I didn’t photograph it. Well, there you go. It’s been mild…
(POSTSCRIPT: my mother, fount of knowledge on all things botanical, suggests this is probably a winter flowering cherry. So there you go. It’s still been very mild, however.)
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