Walking Weather
As inhabitants of an Island, I believe we are very adaptable; we have to be as the seasons come and go and we seek to make the best of whatever situation we have. Plans for days out come and go too, depending on the weather the plan can proceed with jubilation or we can adapt the plan to include the cold wind, rain etc.
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| Changeable Weather |
Surprisingly, not many events get postponed in the UK, we carry on regardless and in doing so, I think we appreciate the sunny, bright, dry days even more.
The weather has been hot for the last
week and any walking for pleasure is best done in the early morning
and evening. I tend to prefer the evening time when I venture out
just before sunset and walk towards the sea, where the sun creates
wonderful reflections as it sinks over the horizon.
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| Contrails cutting through the sky. |
I have been surprised at just how many people do the same thing recently. There have been evenings in the last week where it was busy with people just looking and watching the sun go down. There were groups down on the beach, more people up on the grass slopes above, couples walking along the prom towards the sunset and many more on The Street as the tide receded and more of its shingle bank became visible. It heartens me to see this.
We need natural wonder in our lives and to see a sunset in all its glory blaze forth over the sea is an impressive and humbling sight.
Sunsets
As we were watching the sunset over the last week we heard it referred to as a 'Turner'. JMW Turner loved the light on the Kent coast, especially at Margate where the newly built 'Turner Contemporary' celebrates his connection with the place.
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| Sunset colour spectrum. |
'Have
you seen my study-sky and water. Are they not glorious?Here
I have my lessons day and night.'JMW Turner, on looking out of his
studio window.
I wonder what it is that fascinates us
with sunsets. I am not alone when I say this, in fact I am never
alone when I watch sunsets, there are often others watching,
observing and being in that moment as it happens. That is perhaps
what is the fascination, it connects us to ourselves, each other and
the bigger picture; the universe!
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| Sun Dog. |
The bigger picture has been on my mind this week, I have swam in the sea and thought of its reach all over the world, the ebb and flow of the tides, the covered and the uncovered and wondered why this element that is so lovely to swim in on a hot day is so frustrating when we have to change or adapt plans if the weather changes and it pours down.
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| Walking on water with the sky reflected... |
