The moon was still so clear this morning as the sun was coming up, and I was lucky to get a couple of views the camera could never capture.
100 Days of Nature – Day 19 – Moonlight
Tag: nature walks
100 Days of Nature – Day 18 – Early Mornings
Every morning, I get up early and go for a walk. My main drive is to wake up, get energized. But at quarter to 7 in the morning, the only time I can fit in before work, there’s emerged one drive to get up. ‘To capture the dawn’, as Michael Sheen says in Staged.
100 Days of Nature – Day 15 – Snow! Continued
I love snow. It makes everything wonderful and pretty and glittery. And I haven’t seen it for a few years. This morning, I looked out the window while making a cup of tea and just saw dense snowfall, and it was gorgeous. Even living in such a built up area, it was still beautiful. Just one of the great things about snow; anything can look beautiful.
100 Days of Nature – Day 13 – Snow!!
I love snow, and I hate it when it goes away. After a few dismal winters over the last couple of years, its lovely to just get a peak. Now its back!
100 Days of Nature – Day 12 – Simplicity
Nothing like a dash of colour on a wintery lunchtime walk.
Sometimes it’s difficult to see the minute beauty of every small feature of what makes up a scene. Other times, it just pops out at you.
100 Days of Nature – Day 9 – Dawn
I think the most beautiful time is during early morning, purely for the colours of the sky. Its a simple pleasure, but not one to be passed by.
100 Days of Nature – Day 6 – In Retrospect
It’s important to remember that, when we are still, nature is always moving in a cycle. What isn’t around today will be around in weeks, months, a different season.
100 Days of Nature – Day 5
Beauty is the detail. Sometimes it’s personal to you.
100 Days of Nature – Day 2
Such a simple, mundane task as doing the laundry. Fortunately, there’s a large bay window in my apartment building’s laundry room, and I saw this patch of sky. I didn’t have to go far at all.
100 Days of Nature
It’s easy to lose love for the place you live in. That’s what holidays are for, afterall. During this time, in which we are once again being told to stay at home, and to only leave for essential trips and exercise, the same four walls, patches of grass and trails within walking distance might wear thin real fast.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Of course, getting away is nice. Just for the change of scenery alone, for a different sunset, different view and different company. But we don’t have to go far to find beauty at all.
Yesterday I hiked up the Wrekin (a local mountain in Shropshire) and was struck by the beauty of the peak in the snow. I fell over, but I didn’t care. The trees were still stunning.
And thats when an idea came to me. I want to make an effort to appreciate the nature close to me, when I can’t go elsewhere. Beauty is closer than we all think. And thats why every day for the next hundred days, I want to go out and find it. Whether it be in a flower, a bird, a tree or the sky. And of course today we appreciate what we see in different ways. I like to look at things without a lens, but I also like to capture the moment.
We may not be able to travel to find a most striking beauty spots. It’s difficult to appreciate something you may have passed by a thousand times. But on the 19th of April I want to have enough photographs to look back on to prove that beauty is everywhere, if you look for it.
Paint a Mental Picture 