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fireworks in Ware

bell-ringing practice

under the streetlight

bees on the mahonia

the kitchen clock

at the ford

waiting for dinner

half-term in the precinct

Stevenage shopping precinct at lunch-time.
It is half-term,
the sun is shining
and children play
in the scattered shadows
and falling leaves
of the precinct trees.

pursuit

Pheasants call down the valley
rising to their roosts
in the falling dusk of a still October day.
The stag arrives at a gallop
stalling to a halt at the incline.
Silhouetted to the sky
a spray of antlers define
a mature Fallow hart of three or four years.
Senses and mind driven by instinct it pauses.
The rumble of the pursuers
comes closer.
A decision made
the stag is off.
The estate car follows at a distance
whilst the pheasants continue their
rasping evening chant.

A robin at The Ferry, Cookham

underpass S1636 Gunnels Wood Road

the office fan

After lunch

Rayburn ignition

the starling colony