Sunrise

It is not often that I am up early enough to see a beautiful sunrise, but I managed to catch this one.  We live in a city, so don't get the wide open views of landscape that my sister (who lives in the country) would see.  However, this was a beauty.

I went to get my camera and capture it before the colours changed.

It is a stunning combination of blues, pinks, lilacs, oranges and golds.

It made getting up early that bit more bearable!

Winter in the garden

 This was the sky at sunrise this morning and today has proved to be rather windy, with rubbish bins blowing over outside.  'Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning' indeed.

In the garden, the snowdrops are in flower and these started flowering in December.

 I think this variety came from my mum's garden.

 The winter flowering jasmine still has a few flowers in it, and you can see the leaves starting to grow.  It began flowering in December too.

The winter flowering honeysuckle is also still in bloom, and yes, this also started flowering in December, which is really early for this plant.  Normally, it doesn't start flowering until late January.
It really needs a bit of sun in order to release the beautiful lily of the valley fragrance.  Lots of bulbs are starting to show their leaves too and there are more snowdrops to look forward too.  I haven't spent that much time in the garden recently, but I have been making plans.  Lots of plants need to be re-potted...

Happy Christmas

I'd like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and thought I'd share some recent sunrise photos with you.  I'm not often up early enough (or am 'with-it' enough to grab my camera), but I did manage to catch these recently.  

 Living in a city, there are always aerials and the odd roof which creep into the frame, but the sky is still the star.

Finally, here's Scruffy (he isn't chilled or relaxing here, he is waiting for a foolish person (usually Chris) to attempt to tickle his tummy.) To do that is to invite untold scratches from some extremely sharp claws...

I'll be posting in a few days about the Twelve Days of Christmas swap and what I received in my parcels...

May you all have a lovely Christmas.  

Autumn Sunrise

I was up early enough on Friday to catch the beautiful colours across the sky as the sun rose. My initial thought was to capture it for a future felt interpretation, but I love the mixture of colours anyway. Living in a city, I often feel that I don't get the opportunity to take photos of sunrise and sunset and I envy people who can look out of their windows and see the amazing colour changes. I had to take this out of the loft window, and even then, I needed to do a bit of cropping to remove house roofs. It was worth it though.