Tag: Mist
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A threat of thunder, Hameldown Tor, late summer 2024
No-one is visiting Hameldown tonight, just me. Thunder is in the forecast, risk of disruption, heavy rain, that kind of thing we’re warned so often about these days. And the sky is heavy, ‘though not yet dark – a possible threat, but perhaps in the distance. I’ll carry on up. It’s 1st September, and I…
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Clearing morning mist, Exe Estuary and Ship Canal, September 2015
5:15 am in early September 2015, and I was walking along the towpath of the Exeter Ship Canal. First light, almost an hour before sunrise, and I might have been dreaming, except for an unexpected coldness and the calls of birds I couldn’t see. The mist was by turns hiding and revealing details of the…