12th
December 2016 (Monday)
... 10.00 As you can see in the photo
we have a bonnie , peaceful, morning here:
wouldn’t it be great if everyone on Mother
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| Twenty minutes before sunrise time. |
Earth could wake up to peaceful
mornings! Sadly, this is not the
case: human greed, and the human
penchant for killing, means that many people waken up to heartbreak and
worry,... many don’t waken up at all. I do much ‘thinking’ when I’m on ‘my’..
our beach. We are very, very fortunate
to live where we do.
21.30 This has been a good day for ‘working’: and I don’t doubt that some folk have done
that: someone has been hammering and
banging, not that far away from Ivy.... this made me feel quite weak. I had to find somewhere to relax... so,
packing the camera stuff, including the tripod, into the car boot I went down
to Elie pier for a ‘practice’. My old
tripod had ’turn buttons’ that had to be tightened to hold the camera steady,
and my hands couldn’t cope with that. I
had to use a pair of pliers. The new
tripod has two handles for operating the ‘head’; one
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| Actual sunrise time. |
for panning and tilting, and the other
for ‘leveling’. It wasn’t the bonniest
day for ‘camera practice’ but I managed to do enough to know that my hands have
no problems with this new tripod.... it is ideal for me. And, I
was back at Ivy in time to get the kettle on for Jimmy’s morning cuppa.
After
our cuppa, and having sorted the world, we decided that a trip to Leven would be handy: Jimmy wanted some fruit, and other bits and
pieces; I was sure to find something
that I wanted. It began to rain as we set off for Leven, so
it was a perfect
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| The Breakwater Elie. |
day for some mild retail therapy. By the time we got back to Ivy it was ‘dreich’...
not an afternoon for going out for a daunder.
With
the weather turning miserable, and darkness coming in quickly, I decided to
spend the remainder of the afternoon printing off Christmas cards. This
has been done, and took up most of the evening as well as the afternoon. The printer has the same work characteristics
as me .... slow and steady; once it
gets started! Anyway the cards have
been printed: there are five ‘different’ cards.... basically
the same design with different photographs.
Photographs
: Top – 20 minutes before sunrise, Middle – actual sunrise time, and Bottom – The
Breakwater, Elie.
