There wasn’t much time but I did see it reflected in the pond and thought it worth a quick shot.

I’m not sure what Hugo thought of the whole event, but I’m claiming this as him showing some scientific curiosity.

Unfortunately it was all too brief and the Sun was getting brighter as the eclipse moved on.

I did manage one more of it reflected in the pond though

Then a bit further along I noticed the Sun was trying to poke through the mist and I snapped another photo…

I look up from my iPad, pausing a game bookmarking the quantum field theory article for later, and look out the window. Julie was right, the last rays before the Sun started to set were hitting a small patch of the Pennines and I pushed my digital distraction aside and pulled out the camera bag all the while glancing at the view out of the window.  As I open the camera bag the light changes, and the hills are almost lost in shadow, but knowing how quickly it can change I carry on.

No wait a moment, I’ve the wrong lens on the camera, I quickly open the camera bag and change the lens. The light has changed again, now there’s just a thin point of light catching the summit of Knock which looked quite impressive.

The camera display flashes -E- when I turn it on, then I remember I’d left the memory card by the computer earlier. Card inserted I turn back to the window, the light has gone and the Pennines are in shadow. So I stand by the window and wait…..

….and wait

…….and wait

…………and wait, until the cloud breaks and enough sunlight escapes to illuminate the distant hills.

A few hours later and I was looking at the photographs when I started to wonder about windows, not the operating system as I have better things to do with my days than think about Microsoft products (though I did get a phone call this morning from a nice chap who wanted to help clean my Windows computer as it was badly infected with a virus).

The etymology* of window (n) says, early 13c., literally “wind eye,” from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr “wind”. Replaced Old English eagþyrl, literally “eye-hole,” and eagduru, literally “eye-door.” Eagþyrl and Eagduru conjour up excellent mental images, and I’m they’ll haunt my dreams in the near future. Anyway this is what I took through the eagþyrl –

And this is what I took through the eagduru this morning –

*http://www.etymonline.com/index.php

This morning I set out to take a few misty photographs, but there was quite a bit too much mist for me to get the photographs I was after. So, in the end I decided to pop up Hartside Pass to see what the views were like. Whilst at the top I stopped to watch the Sunrise, as you do and took a quick photograph while I was there.