Midwinter Blue

I suppose it’s that time of year when everything can seem to be just shades of grey, grey everywhere: sky, clouds, landscape, water and even your mood so perhaps a hint of the blues will cheer everything up. Even if that seems to be a contradiction in terms. Despite the succession of grey days we do get some absolutely piercingly clear days where everything is beautifully lit and only the horizon has a hint of greyish haze. One of the features in the Fenland landscape that always seems rather strange are the isolated trees that you see. In the middle of a massive field or the edge of a dyke with no company within miles will be a lonely tree. Why it’s been left there who knows but they always seem to have a colony of birds and I’m sure there’s plenty of other wildlife in and around them too, the type of tree doesn’t seem to be a defining reason for their position either. As always there’ll be more to follow after this series of prints is finished and there’s only two more prints after this one and the series is complete so it will be time to start all over again.