Last sun?

What an absolutely smashing day it was today. So nice I shall use up all my extras and go back to the Blipfoto of one photo a day.

Photo one is of the ferries - a constant backdrop to my walks - taken from a different perspective with the French coastline looking very close. A bit of fiddling here to dampen the highlights and give it a 1960s postcardy feel.

Photo two is of our local kestrel that is getting a lot of grief these days from crows and magpies. He/she is sitting on the old maritime pine in front of the house the sun almost directly behind.

Three is the South Foreland light with winter wheat or barley contouring and breaking up the big bare fields.

Four is a sort of requiem to a passerine. A bird made lunch by the peregrines or sparrow hawks and left on a bench on the circuit. A greenfinch perhaps or maybe a goldfinch - there were three in the nearby bushes.

Five is yew berries in the full warm sunshine of the middle afternoon.

Six is the promenade in the bay zig zagging its way northwards.

I had a long chat with Fred the last fisher in the Bay and saw on the Strait horizon the huge sail - it looked like the Shard had taken to sea - of sailboat Nikata that had left northern Finland on the 14th and is making fast for Tenerife.

That's the end of my extras. It was a day worthy of them.