Rosie Meddon

The clumps of primroses in the garden are putting on a brave display, despite the ground being cold and waterlogged.
They take me back to my childhood because they were one of the first flowers I learned to identify.

A very pale dawn sky, with a narrow band of soft apricot and lemon behind the trees on the horizon, fading up through paler lilac blue above.

Pale and washy dawn in North Devon this morning but at least it’s neither icy nor wet.

A cloudless sky fading from deep blue at the top, through paler blue to apricot just above the silhouetted tree line on the horizon.

What a difference to wake up to a clear sky!
North Devon dawn, just before 07.00 this morning.

Yes!

A song thrush, bill open as it sings, perches on top of a hedge, blue sky beyond.

This morning’s pre-dawn sing along by the blackbirds and robins has been joined by a song thrush. I think it’s the first time I’ve heard one this year.
(Photo taken previously)

We made this same circuit of these sites back in August and found them fascinating.
Down here, in North Devon, we’re lucky to have Cleeve Abbey nearby.

A pale clear dawn sky with a broken band of ragged grey cloud and a glimpse of strawberry pink low behind trees silhouetted on the hillside.

92% waning gibbous moon, ivory colour against the night sky with crater detail visible.

Only a brief tinge of colour to the eastern sky this morning but a heavenly sight to the west: 92% waning gibbous moon about to set.

Creamy yellow primrose flowers nestled among mid-green foliage.

For a while there have been primroses in flower in the border. But it’s only today that I have been able to get across the soggy lawn to see them.

A dark sky with filmy clouds and a creamy coloured full moon.

A glimpse of the moon as it briefly appeared from behind the clouds this evening.

A sky with horizontal bands of indigo cloud, streaked with pink just above the line of trees on the horizon.

A sky, mainly showing bands of indigo cloud but with a patch of fuchsia pink lower down.

Fleeting colour in the pre sunrise North Devon sky this morning. It’s quite a few days since we’ve had anything but grey first thing.

We managed a brief trip to our allotment last week too, cutting down the raspberry canes and pulling out a few weeds from one of the strawberry beds until our fingers became so cold we could no longer feel them. It still felt good, though. 🌱

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Close up of a ripe orange Calamondin fruit, among dark green leaves.

A number of ripe orange Calamondin fruit on a small tree in a pot.

A lovely crop of Calamondins on my tree on the landing this year.

A pale blue sky with a low band of pink-grey cloud just above the dark line of trees on the horizon.

Just before sunrise and a light mist is just clearing. Narrowly avoided a frost.

A bulging dark grey cloud, filling the sky above silhouetted trees.

In the middle of the day, the sky darkened and this cloud delivered an almighty hailstorm.

A dramatic swathe of cloud in shades of peach, amber and purple above a horizon of silhouetted trees.

Moments before sunrise in North Devon.

A dawn sky, with a silhouetted line of trees in the foreground and a mainly clear sky, shading from rich peach at the horizon, upwards through pale lemon and ice blue to the deeper tones of the receding night. Some ragged cloud, to the north, is grey with tints of purple.

Forty minutes before sunrise in North Devon this morning. It’s another frosty start.

An evening sky, just after sunset, of pale blue with wispy peach clouds behind distant rooftops.

Pastel sunset over North Devon this evening.

I am always amazed by how the song from such a tiny bird can carry so well through woodland.

Kate North’s chilly sunrise picture is very pleasing.

A silhouetted line of trees and rooftops sits in front of a dawn sky - dark patches of wispy cloud against soft pinks, lilacs, lemon, peach and blue.

Multi coloured North Devon dawn again this morning.
Must knuckle down and get back into my writing groove today - a grim cold, caught between Christmas and New Year, has hampered efforts thus far.

Yes!

If there are any Netgalley reviewers who would like to read a wartime saga set in North Devon, then I’ll just mention that my forthcoming release, Isabel’s War, is now available to request.

Congratulations!
There’s nothing quite like harvesting your own living room lemon! And the fragrance from the blossom is divine!

A clear dawn sky, indigo at the top fading down through mid to pale blue, then through a narrow band of ivory and lemon to a deep peach. In the foreground is a silhouetted row of winter-bare trees.

Another colourful wintry dawn over North Devon this morning.

A partly clear pale sky, moments before sunrise, studded with large dark clouds, one of which is illuminated deep purplish burgundy. The foreground is a row of rooftops and trees.

We might be two weeks on from the shortest day, meaning that sunset, here in North Devon, is already fourteen minutes later, but sunrise remains stuck at 08.20. It will be 6th January before it starts rising earlier.
This morning’s sunrise gave only this brief but bold flash of colour.

Thanks! It was such a clear sky.

A pale golden full moon against an almost dark sky.

I know I posted an almost identical picture of last night’s moon but hey - when Mother Nature puts on a spectacle like this . . .

A pale full moon against the night sky.

We’re fortunate in North Devon that, at the moment, it is still 4C - but I still got cold taking this picture of this evening’s full moon.

A low and narrow rosy pink band of sky beneath leaden grey clouds. A silhouetted row of rooftops and bare trees marks the horizon.

A rather feeble sunrise to welcome the new year in my location. But at least it’s ten degrees centigrade warmer outside this morning than it was at this time yesterday.
Happy New Year, Bluesky friends.