22nd September from the West Cliff Green, Bournemouth

Flat and grey. Still warm, though. A breeze ripples the sea. But the sky is not as flat as it appears at first sight. It is compose of a patchwork of colours: white, grey, charcoal. mauve, pink. The horizon is a clean, straight line that emphasise the ragtag dressing up box of streaks and blobs. The horizon represents a highway along which the container ship Fortaleeza makes her way from Southampton to Cork. She looks tiny but she is there out on the Channel. A lone gull completes the picture.

From 22nd September 2021

The air is fresh and crisp for the Autumn Equinox and a thick mist hangs over the harbour mouth. Occasional distant fog horns carry though the still morning. The sea is as calm as I've ever seen it and the sky is a pure, clear blue. A lady sits straight backed on the grass live streaming her meditations to the world.

From 22nd September 2015

A chill wind and a restless sea. The sun rises pale lemon yellow behind thin veils of grey. A single unbroken band of cloud stretches from the far west beyond the Purbeck Hills along the line of the horizon to the Isle of Wight. The clouds puff and heap into the sheer blue morning like a a twenty mile jumble of teddy bears and other soft toys touched by the dawn.