Goodnight friends! Started fairly grey again, but warmer and stuffier. Fortunately pale blue slivers among the streaky grey clouds widened over the afternoon, and tremulous glittering stripes danced on the grey-blue waters of the bay. Poppies and viper’s-bugloss waving like banners in a stiff breeze. By 4 pm or so the long afternoon and evening was settling toward a steady 19°c. Humidity started to dissipate and thin, wispy cirrus layers passed across each other in dreamy parallax across a huge bright blue coastal sky.
A lovely relaxed holiday-feeling day, despite having to manage a lot of steep seaside lanes, full of small kind gestures by people we met in passing. Visited the Mary Anning statue by the sea, admired huge ichthyosaur fossils at the pokey but charming Lyme Regis museum. Went to a talk by paleontologist Darren Naish about fossil marine reptiles and sea monsters, then relaxed on the beach and seafront before eating out just as a low-key acoustic guitar cover artist started up.
May we approach each other with care and open-hearted kindness today!
Image ID: Photo of a soft azure sky mirrored by a deep shimmering metallic blue sea, interrupted only by a line of three tiny bright yellow buoys, many promentories of the jurassic cliffs headlands can now be seen cutting across the horizon clear and dun green gold, fading gradually into blue distance.
Photo of a spike of vivid purple viper’s-bugloss flowers, a tall fuzzy stem with columns of finely pleated frill-edged trumpets with sprays of pink stamens and ornately serrated green calyxes.
