It's a bright, clear day with light that suggests we're into late afternoon, early evening now. We're looking out to sea but still close enough to land and a port behind us that we can see a harbour wall extending out from the right and almost reaching the left edge of view. It's a low wall, offering some protection for anything anchored within it although there's nothing in view at the moment. At the left end of the wall a small, round fortification has been erected upon which there might have been cannons sited at one time. Now, all we can see is a small lighthouse, mostly white but with a red cupola housing the bulb, and a couple of small stone buildings. The sunlight is warm and catches the left side of the fort. The sea is almost flat with a dimpled texture like blue-green skin, and the sky is cloudless with a cooling blue at the top fading to a pale, warm white near the horizon.
For #MeerMittwoch here's Fort de l’Ouest on the western end of one of the breakwaters protecting the harbour of Cherbourg, France.
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