The Clock (and WidWed results)

is going again :-)
I spent three hours in the church clock tower this afternoon.
It was ... fairly cold!
Not just me,  my neighbour Nick and the technician from the clock maintainers were there too - and the clock is now a going concern.

My blip is a triptych of the front face of the auto winder for the clock hands mechanism.  There are two more for the chimes.
This one needed some mechanical fettling and a microswitch repair. 
At least Nick and I now have a better understanding of how the winder operates and how the epicyclic drive to raise the weight is triggered and stopped. Sam (the technician) was very determined & persistent in his approach and I certainly know more now than I did when the clock first failed. 

Many thanks to everyone who enjoyed my effort yesterday with abstracting three Georgian Windows in Warwick.

So Wide Wednesday Results ...

This week’s Wide Wednesday theme Natural or Nature had the usual great range of imaginative entries.  The awards are:
Favourites to:

ChrisF – Soft morning light and a little mist with bare trees.
AH14 – Soft sunset light with more mist
JensPhotos – Lightning strikes more than twice!
Apollo Fly – Nature reclaims an old pier in an industrial setting.  
Freespiral – soft silvery mono over the sea

Honourable Mentions to:

JohnRH – Romanesco – Fibonacci does cauliflower!
Fitzbilly – winter birch trees
KF – even more soft mistiness
Bobsblips – nature frames a modern city
RockArea – gnarly trees on a field boundary
 
Also well worth a look – let’s call these special extra awards:
Miranda1008 -  a sunlit waterside scene
Claire – finding focus in the mist
 

Thanks to everyone who entered, as ever, I have very much enjoyed seeing your efforts and choosing the awards, and of course, its just my opinion!

and yes … you are still stuck with me for the rest of the month! 
The next theme is: Colourful and/or Striking Tag: Widwed230125
Don’t forget the themes are optional so have a go even if you can’t get exactly onto one.