The Natural Navigator» dawn colours http://www.naturalnavigator.com Natural navigation, finding our way using nature. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:27:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Procrastinating in Pyjamas http://www.naturalnavigator.com/writing-at-dawn-procrastinating/ http://www.naturalnavigator.com/writing-at-dawn-procrastinating/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:54:50 +0000 admin http://www.naturalnavigator.com/?p=1940 dawn fieldI have a rule that I write for an hour each morning before doing anything else. No distractions or procrastinating allowed. No pottering, no early breakfasting and definitely no Internet browsing or checking emails. I used to be able to…

]]> dawn fieldI have a rule that I write for an hour each morning before doing anything else. No distractions or procrastinating allowed. No pottering, no early breakfasting and definitely no Internet browsing or checking emails. I used to be able to spend this hour indoors, but the kids are now at an age where it is easier to escape to a shed at the end of the garden.

Standing and taking in the dawn for a few moments this morning it felt like a rule that was in need of a little breaking. I stood there in my standard uniform for this time of day: pyjamas, Ugg boots, thermal jumper and hat. Quarter of an hour must have passed. Naughty, naughty boy! Get in that shed at once!

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My wife and I spent nearly all the weekend on the water, which will be a rare treat until our boys are a bit older. There was lots of sun, plenty of mist and fog and not very much wind.…

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My wife and I spent nearly all the weekend on the water, which will be a rare treat until our boys are a bit older. There was lots of sun, plenty of mist and fog and not very much wind. It would have been nice to have done more sailing and less motoring, but we were ecstatic just to be out there.

In my last entry I talked about dawn and dusk colours, these two dawn pictures show the shift in colour quite nicely. There was only one minute between the two shots. Interestingly it appears to have reddened, which is not what we’d usually expect to see – ah, nature, that slippery friend!

Natural navigators will have spotted already the windswept nature of the trees on the shoreline, confirming that we are indeed looking southeast.

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