Old and New

The sky was blue, and the sun shone.  Yesterday was the most beautiful of days, but we had to work!  I enjoy my work, so it was no real hardship, but it would have been good to be able to take advantage of the sun.

Our journey to Wiltshire begins on the motorway.  We travel the road often, so the journey is timed to perfection.  No need to speed, it helps to conserve the fuel anyway.  Cars overtake us, many doing over 90, and occasionally we notice that one is being followed by an unmarked police car.  Sometimes we pass them, now stationary, on the hard shoulder, usually they are gone – into the distance before our junction.

Once away from the hustle and bustle of the motorway our journey moves on to the old roads.  Some of them originally tracks across the Salisbury Plain.  The views are stunning.  Old earthworks and ancient hills can be seen for miles around.  Yesterday was particularly striking as the sun rises later now,, and the shadows were long in the bright morning light.  This emphasised the shapes of the hills and fields in a new and exciting way, one which had changed by the time we returned, the sun now higher and even brighter.

This photograph gives nothing away!  It was taken last year in early March, from a moving car, and as a design source for a workshop.  However, it gives an impression of the distance.  The whiteish blob on the hillside is, in fact, a white horse carved into the chalky hillside near Pewsey.

Equally fuzzy, and again not giving much away, this next photograph was taken for the same reason on another date.  It shows the other side of the road.

The final one is a little clearer, though.

This last one is the best of a bad job (actually, it was a good job, because each one illustrates the point I wanted to make on the workshop).  Salisbury Plain itself disappears into infinity.  No chance to take a better shot of this, because at the time we travel, regardless of the time of year, all shots would be directly into the sun.

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