January is always a time for sales and specials but I’ve been getting the best specials of all, as they’re free.
Plus they are self-generating — no batteries! — and ever-changing, so I never tire of them.
Just as at my old Mountain, I arise early, rewarded by this sort of sunrise. Delivered in this first week of January 2015.
By late afternoon on 1st January, the eastern sky was full of combed clouds, fanning out like floating seaweed. I assumed they were Cirrus of some sort, the highest of clouds, made of ice crystals.
As if that wasn’t enough of a gift, I then spotted a tiny white moon amongst the more blurred fans. Look hard, centre, bottom third of the photo.
It’s risky to go indoors; I might miss another special.
Like last night, twilight, there was the full moon, underlined by a tiny cloud in an almost cloudless sky.
Luckily I have lots of windows here, so can keep an eye out for sky reasons to grab the camera and leap out on to the lawn before the special ends.