Sunday 21 June 2015

Countdown to summer


Today is the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere; from tomorrow summer will be on its way!

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This fellow looks like something out of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which is chock-full of descriptions of nature in mid-winter... an English winter, of course, not a New Zealand one, but it doesn't matter ;)

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The Desert Plateau (aka Mordor) in winter.

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