LOOK TO THE SKIES!

The interesting thing about walking early in the morning this time of year, is that the light conditions change completely during the course of our time out.  Today when we started it was dark - we could see a half moon (see above, middle, left), and the large tree by the Market Cross was shining brightly with the Christmas lights (above, top, right), that were officially switched on by our local celebrity, the founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis, last Friday.

When out, especially on high ground, we often look to the skies to see wonderful colour combinations.  My camera doesn't do justice to them.  Sometimes it is the sun rising with beautiful pinks, oranges and purples or at other times it is stormy and moody with great cloud formations and delicate pastel colours.  By the end of our walk today (see above), the sky was looking very dramatic and held the promise of a sunny morning. 

  
The other thing that was special about this morning's walk was how warm it was for this time of year.  We were soon unzipping our jackets and I even took mine off for a short time!  Although the trees are almost bare, the grass is still very green and growing - testament to the wet and mild conditions...

We spied this ironic piece of graffiti on a lovely old natural stone wall that encloses the local cemetery.  I feel there are places where this sort of graffiti is not amusing and is just vandalism, defacing a place that has special meaning to some people...