Oh wow! Watch. Sorry for the rubbish video but I caught a glimpse of something.....
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....Exit stage left
Yes yes ducks
We know who's the real star!
The #Moorhen
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A long portrait photo, blazing white winter sun, plus its stark reflections dancing on the breezy ripples of the canal.
Boxing day blaze of glory!
Morning all!
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A very modest Christmas fir tree, lit up beautifully by the bright sunshine, but also some little crackly light spheres. In the background through the stern canopy, colourful canal boats are resplendent in the sun, and (bonus) underneath the wooden pontoon the silhouette of a Moorhen maybe glimpsed, along with some ducks sheltering from the bitter breeze.
Merry Christmas!
My lovely tree and yes there IS a #MoorningMoorhen , honest!
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This morning!
(Just about morning, just before midday)
Gorgeous glimpse of local Moorhen on sunny ripples on the cut.
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Ripples on the cut
Natures texture
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Morning reflections
Ripples on the cut
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Twos company
Dozing Ducks on the cut
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#Moorhenmadness
Caught this marvellous Moorhen doing some nifty balancing this morning
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A startlingly bright moon appears to light up the slender branches of a shapely tree, adding sparkling highlights to the dark limbs. This photo even feels cold!
#MidnightMoon
#ColdMoon
Getting back to the boat late last night, everywhere seemed lit up by this amazing bright moon, but oh, it was freezing cold!
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Moorning!
Ducks on the cut in December....
Chilly start to the day, 2⁰C with a frigid breeze
But these birds chilling gracefully on the shorelines....
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Blue sky with a few wispy clouds is set on fire by a egg yolk golden sunrise set behind spindly winter trees on the horizon. In the foreground ripples on the cut just about refect the golden sun.
#sunrise
That golden moment
Check alt text too
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There's always a Moorhen!
#pmMoorhen
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From the archive - detail from the first of a number of narrowboat portraits executed over the years. This is 'Dawn Chorus' #canalboat #riverlife #watercolour #portrait #narrowboats #narrowboatsofinstagram #artistonbluesky #waterside #bargee #canalboatlife #watercolorpainting #reflectionsinwater
A black mooring rope coated in white frost
It was VERY chilly on the cut this morning!
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A bright amber sunset over the canal blending into a sky of deep indigo The skyline is broken by tall reeds, spiky against the sky A pontoon leads out to moored boats The canal is calm with none of the wild thrashing of the storm of last week
Sunset over the cut
Reeds into the dark
Hardly a ripple
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Rainy day on the cut
Moorhen making purposeful way up on to moorings
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Morning view of beautiful skyblue sky (!) washed with a few high whispy cottonwool clouds viewed through a porthole window on a narrowboat.
through the round window....
#thoseofacertainage
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#bluesky
A bright autumnal moon with halo and flare brightens up the dark and choppy water with flashes and glints of light.
Halloween moon on the water
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Aaaand stretch!
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Amazing (blue)sky !
(Plus favourite tree)
View from a Narrowboat
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Sheltering from the chilly breeze
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Love the avian calisthenics of these slightly daft but gorgeous birds
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My washing
2nd time today, I've checked the launderette, no one there.
I go back to the boat, gather my bag and wash stuff and return to the laundrette, both washers now full and there's a queue!
3rd time lucky?
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#laundry
A large tree on a high point above a canal. The tree is still partially green and stands against a vivid blue sky with flicks of whispy bright white cloud behind. It is a BIG sky today, if you know what I mean. The thin portrait arrangement of the photo accentuates this.
Brrrr...
Chilly on the cut this morning!
But.
A bright blue sky and a favourite tree to set you up for the day
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2 mallard ducks, a male sitting and a female standing, are stoically facing into the wind on a rather battered boardwalk above a grey green canal reflecting the overcast sky
Eh up Duck
This is George & Mildred
#Ofacertainage
Weathering the storm rather
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I do love a #MorningMoorhen !
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Photo of rivulets of rain on a window with, out of focus, two ducks standing on a boardwalk
Eh up Duck!
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Through the round window....
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Two dusks on a rickety wooden boardwalk sleeping in the same position near one another
Ducks snoozing together
Eyes left!
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