It’s a nice evening! What a contrast to the damp dismal start to the day. There’s a time in the evening when the light is at its best, when across on the hills & fields the late evening sun causes a glow. I love to sit & drink  in the view, how the fields & hill top are highlighted by the sun. Just as a spotlight casts down to light the stars on stage! As I watch, birds fly past, they are white a glowing brightness, illuminated by the evening sun.  They look stunning! Now if I were an artist I would be searching my paintbox, trying to capture this natural beauty. It’s just fleeting – no chance to pick up my camera & focus through the window.

Sea gulls are beautiful creatures. They are residents in my home city, even though I am many miles from the coast. Seeing them brings memories of my daughter’s first encounter with seagulls, as a toddler on holiday in Dorset. She called them sea golds! Perhaps this was simply my poor diction & how she had learnt the word, or maybe she saw them as beautiful, something precious. The name has stuck; my sea golds this evening look most graceful. A lovely end to the day.