Views from the garden and river

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Views from the garden and river

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Well it is day 4 of total lockdown and now illegal to leave the house except to buy food and take one exercise during the day.

Here is a sunset from two evening exercise walks by the river. We heard Chiffchaffs, so the little migrants from Africa have made it back so no border control there :) and we saw some bats too which were lovely. We have seen a lovely pair of Goosander on the river every evening so far, so they must be resident. We are so lucky to live 3 minutes away from this beauty, I hope they don't ban exercise soon ;)
ImageSunset 24-03-2020 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

ImageSunset 25-03-2020 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

The neighbours cherry tree which I usually curse due to solar but I quite like it at the moment
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and messing with the fish-eye lens at lunchtime, lovely clear sky (no contrails) but the lens refracts the sunlight quite nicely
ImageClear Skies 26-03-2020 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

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Nice pics, Alexandra. I think we need more like these from around the globe to keep our spirits up.

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Lovely shots Alexandra!


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Hi Alexandra...

Beautiful set of pics, thanks for sharing!!!

Good to hear that you can get out for some exercise, and its fortunate that you have views like this easily accessible.

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The ladies were let out to play today. So more hazards on the daily exercise, of course the hubby just had to walk in one ;)

ImageSunset 2020-03-27 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

and Venus and Moon looking great

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been a bit busy at work (virtually) the past two days, will catch up tomorrow :)


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Love the pics Alexandra...moon/Venus will put on a great show the next few nights and and the cow pasture looks very peaceful. Will be a month or more before we have enough grass to support the cows at my brothers.

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Thank you for sharing these beautiful and serene views, Alexandra.

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Great pics Alexandra.I am fortunate that my occupation allows me to be outdoors and as a primary producer I just keep on going. Luckily I don't run into many people in the bush.
You and Darren take care.


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