16.01.2021 A chilly Saturday.

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Saturday 16th, 20F, [-7C] clear but with some cloud. The coldest night for three years. A dry, sunny day is promised but remaining cold. The landscape had been smoothed by universal frost providing a sage green wash. Mist hung photogenically in distant hollows. 

My old Lumix TZ7 was showing a huge black spot in the middle of the screen! More fluff! Had I known it [the landscape] would be so pretty I'd have taken a "proper" camera with a long lens. 

The blinding sun became steadily more obscured as long stripes of cloud passed over. Which took half an hour to clear again. A column of smoke, or steam, went up. So I walked to the top of the hill to locate its source. Definitely steam from a distant, industrial site. A couple were walking their dog on a low hill two fields over. Leading to a remarkable reset of all sense of scale of the familiar landscape. Not many birds were visible today.

Spent the day working on a project in the garden despite the cold. I was pleasantly warm as the sun came and went.

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