Leaves, Trees, Fells and Stones

A mixed bag of images, mainly because the light kept changing and one minute you thought there wasn’t any point in carrying a camera and the next you couldn’t take enough photographs πŸ˜‰ Anyway, my day started off taking photographs of leaves and trees by the pond, after a pause I was taking photographs at Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle, I ended the day taking a large panoramic of the Pennines…

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A round plane…

…well, no planes are really involved here πŸ˜‰ I visited Long Meg and Her Daughters this morning as the morning mist was looking interesting, as I wandered around with the camera I started to wonder what the definition of a circle is. We all know what a circle is, but I couldn’t remember the etymology of the word. The dictionary says a circle is A round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre) which sounds about right πŸ˜‰ and the etymology…

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Yay!

I was half dozing last night, the fire was crackling and hissing as the logs slowly burned and I was pondering an early night. Then Julie pointed out there was an Aurora alert and quite a lot of talk on Twitter about it being a ‘good one’ πŸ˜‰ so I wandered outside expecting to see cloud – which is normal whenever there’s an Aurora alert. For once however the sky was fairly clear and I tried a couple of snaps from the lane, it looked interesting enough to bundle a…

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