Photo from one of our readers

Swallows.

Sent by Jack with the comment " Nature is Wonderful."

Tell us more Jack.
Where was this taken? What's hanging from the ceiling? Did the birds bring in all the mud to build the nest? Have the swallows been here before?

Dawn recently

The Sun !

It really does exist!

A lovely cold but clear sunny day.

Time to get down to the allotment or out for a walk if at all possible.

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From Allan Wilson photographer

 

Taken during Ulverston Carnival

Allan Wilson using light superbly

The first of three pictures of reeds at Leighton Moss.

You can buy Allan's photos as pictures or cards at:

The Brewery, The Bake House, Gillams, The Mad Hatters and the indoor market

And here's another

Photo from Allan Wilson!

Tree at Colton

Another superb photo from Allan Wilson

Hoad from Grizedale

You'll enjoy browsing through many of Allan's photos that can be seen on his web site at http://www.allanwilsonphotography.co.uk/

Good morning Ulverston

Calm after 'the storm:'

A time for photographs that lift the spirits

It's worth stopping to look at the photos that Jon (listed on the right) has put on his blog

Makes you want to get the boots on to see for yourself. I wonder how he keeps his fingers warm never mind his body.

Hope you haven't got a photographer in the house

That's a silly hope - he'll (it's most likely to be a he - women aren't normally that obsessive - they're multitaskers after all - how can they be?) be spending his time outdoors.

I have to be wary - it could be the end of a 'beautiful relationship'.

"Do you mind, dear, if I stop again (for the tenth time) to take a photograph, darling."

" You carry on, you big Oaf"

"Can't you see that I'm frozen to the spot waiting after the last request"
"I'd have gone home an hour ago if I could only move"

"The Christmas Turkey must be a lovely shade of black - no charcoal - by now. It will look really beautiful with some gold trimmings around it - really show them off well."

Well here's the result:

True art is far more to be prized than a slap-up meal; isn't it?

Well isn't it?

Surely you've got to say "YES"

Upper Gill Banks

Yes, yet another (bloody) sunrise/set with snow in the fore/middle/backgound

"Surely we can have a picture of a cat by the Christmas Tree for a change"

Funny you should say that:

"Do you mind Dear whether I just slip this one in too, Darling, Honey bunch . . .  that meal was delicious"

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One great photo from JAK

I asked - what is it?

" We walked our boundarys banging a Goat skin Bodran

to chase the evil spirits away at the solstice dawn.

. . . . .  And wake the neighbors!

That is the dawn through the skin and we chant :"

Let hope and peace come with this light

to illuminate and cheer the way

for from the darkness of the night

will come a better - brighter day

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Spectacular Sunrise

Every one seems to have got excited about this sunrise of yesterday and got their favourite snaps - here are mine - was this a warning of the immanent Earthquake that happen yesterday evening! My didn't it rumble on for a long time. Futhermore it seems to have been felt over a very wide area of the North West.

Here is the sunrise - recording an earthquake takes far quicker reactions than I have!

Sent in my readers of this blog

First:

http://www.myspace.com/witchessky/blog/522082026

Next from Swarthmoor:

Winter Solstice 2010 @ Swarthmoor.

Regards Derek.

And from Coniston:

Ken and Linda

Another Allan Wilson Photograph

This, Allan tells me, is from a previous winter.

I see the forecasts are for bitter cold weather with it looks like dustings of snow until a weeks time when there may be a heavier fall.

Please to say that we on our lane are ready again to tackle whatever is thrown at us.

Two neighbours have already armed themselves with grit that can be picked up at the SLDC depot in North Lonsdale Road. I suspect Cllr James Airey has had something to do with ensuring that this supply is available.

Well done James - lead  by example!

The first of Allan Wilson's December photos

A Waxwing on the Canal last week.

Absolutely superb.

(May I remind you that you can see the full size version by clicking on the image itself)

Activities in the snow

Derek Bowman has sent these photos of what he's done in the snow "with his own fair hand"  - thanks.

 

Also some pictures of the bushes in his garden that he's trimmed in Swartmoor

 Fantastic Green Men !

Snowy Gill Banks today

From my camera:

Snow photos from Milton Haworth at the BBC

Ulverston based freelance photographer Milton Haworth sent these snaps of snow in south Cumbria to BBC Cumbria where you can see more .

Picasso visited Liverpool

I enjoyed this gallery - worth the visit - Tate - Liverpool

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Here's another try!