Yesterday saw the start of summer time and to celebrate the event nature produced a dramatic sunset over the northern sky at Parlington, here is one picture from a collection I captured as the sun set! For those interested the image below is a satellite view of Parlington showing the sun rise and set along with the moon rise and set. Sunset was 21:40 @313.9° which is the orange line, sunrise is the yellow line at 04:33 @46.1°, the moon rose at 16:36 @119.5° and set at 01:07 @246.0° Moon’s disc was 70% illuminated. This info thanks to Steven Trainor of The Photographers Ephemeris [TPE].
Sadly on a more somber note, but with a beautiful shot of a field full of poppies; read on…
Poppies
Today whilst travelling to Barwick in Elmet I noticed that the fields were telling me that the war in Afghanistan, must end, before we spill any more blood of our brave service personnel. Sent by useless politicians with no proper strategy in place, just to placate our American Allies. The poppies gleaming in the afternoon sun, as they did following the slaughter of World War One, or the Great War as it was originally called, until the second conflict [WW2] showed we [Human Beings] could develop even more deadly ways of killing each other.
302 deaths in Afghanistan
302 deaths in Afghanistan, so far, I cannot imagine that the number of civilian deaths caused by extremists related to the Taliban would have been anything like this number, given that the same money or less was spent on reinforcing our own borders, instead of paying for this long distance war to nowhere!