What a difference a day makes

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Yesterday was a frosty morning, and I made the above photograph at Wimbledon Common with dog walkers and golfers enjoying a chilly outing. The air was crisp and the sky clear but very, very cold. This morning, a huge snow front blanketed the entire UK, and dropped over 4 to 5 inches of snow in blizzard conditions. The British Isles is known for it’s wet weather, so it was a respite from the rain, but when the snow thaws, that will cause another bout of flooding.

Dinosaur Coast 2


I managed another short trip to the well regarded stretch of beach known as the Dinosaur Coast, at the southernmost part of the Isle of Wight, to look for footprints and other fossilised evidence of the Cretaceous beasts but time was limiting and the light fading fast. So I only squeezed a few shots of the amazing black sandy rivulets that formed from a small brook, which made it to the sea during low tide.

Remembering the Fallen

 

Veteran on Remembrance Sunday, Kensington War Memorial, London

I do not know your name, but I know you died 
I do not know from where you came, but I know you died 
 
Your uniform, branch of service, it matters not to me 
Whether Volunteer or Conscript, or how it came to be 
That politicians’ failures, or some power-mad ambition 
Brought you too soon to your death, in the name of any nation
– Kenny Martin, 2003