The topic this month was "early morning" but before showing you the photos that you have all sent in, here is a short poem by Mary Oliver that I thought you might enjoy:
Morning in a New Land
In trees still dripping night some nameless birds
Woke, shook out their arrowy wings, and sang,
Slowly, like finches sifting through a dream.
The pink sun fell, like glass, into the fields.
Two chestnuts, and a dapple grey,
Their shoulders wet with light, their dark hair streaming,
Climbed the hill. The last mist fell away,
And under the trees, beyond time's brittle drift,
I stood like Adam in his lonely garden
On that first morning, shaken out of sleep,
Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves,
Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.
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.... and now here are your photos, starting with three from Gill on safari in South Africa:
Gill - "worth the early start!"
Kate - Early morning Camber Sands
