I began this series on 18 March 2020 . The aim was to create a photographic diary of my daily walks during lockdown and to record spring evolving. I planned "to use this blog to capture an essence of my strolls out and about... to be a record of my experiences and the changing seasons in this little corner of South Cambridgeshire. While we retreat into our social bunkers, the world is growing onwards beautifully." I though that I'd be capturing the early growing of spring - not all of it. But here it is, summer and although the lockdown is lifting, it's not yet over, but spring is.
I thought I should commemorate the last post in some special way and what better way than to greet the midsummer sun as it pours itself all over Cambridgeshire. As a natural owl, it was going to be a challenge. My one and only early morning photo journey was on 3rd October 2015 , five years ago, and it wasn't as early as it looked. It was therefore going to require a significant effort on my part, but I set my alarm for 4am and waited to see if I could go through with it.
The outside world was both familiar (I've lived here a long time) and yet different: it looked different and it even smelt different. I met a fox, but it was too quick and the day was still too dark for me to photograph it. I staggered up the field and along the top road to my chosen view point and then I waited (and took photographs too, of course)
Almost home...
