got these of a hungry cormorant last week by Walker riverside, yesterday I saw a crow having a bit of a aerial battle with a hawk of some kind in the same place but wasnt quick enough to photo it

big picture 2010

these might be repeats, but who cares, they're nice ones.

this puts photos in the wrong order, not to worry, nice moonrise, not digitally coloured it was an orange moon,a week or so ago.

perhaps with mars above it?

on king Edwards bay beach, nice time.

fresh snow on the golf course, sun and snow, again.

good walk in snow by delaval hall, this is my favorite tree, an oak possibly kept a bit small by its position by ploughwed fields or maybe not?

this is my ex- ray from knackered collarbone, its fairy much ok now just a little ache now and again and a bit of numbness in the wrist due to nerve damage.

I feel a bah humbug moment coming on, with me it's new year rather than Christmas, I pretty much hate new year it seems a very empty kind of tradition to me, just a few days after people have got all sentimental about baby Jesus they want to get drunk and sleep with people they neither know nor like, cynical: moi?? anyway I was pondering this as you do and remembered reading in a recent book a book I read recently that is, that some ancient culture's clever people used to debate all important philosophical questions twice, once sober; once drunk, I suppose some cultures considered inebriation to be getting onto a higher plane of experience, a spiritual plane or something but people now it seems don't believe that they just want to feel different to their normal experience so the question so why are people unhappily sober?? is life so empty that we ... actually I'm boring myself..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
anyway, I like Allendale in the snow