At last the evenings are drawing out, and on a fine afternoon we can be out until almost 6pm and still just about have enough light to find our way home. I enjoy walking out just before sunset, watching the end of day as the suns descends below the horizon and then walking home in the dusk, or , if I’m lucky and the light is right, in the gloaming. This was taken from the so called “New Hill”, an artificial hill created around the quarry edge, preventing the dust and noise from escaping into the surrounding countryside. The quarry company at the time that the hill was being constructed, about 25 years ago, encouraged locals to call this the “New Hill”. They had designs on the “Old Hill” – Croft Hill, which is essentially a big lump of granite rising out of the countryside, ripe for quarrying. There was a local outcry, and permission was never granted. The current quarrying company have made it clear in various ways that they have no plans of Croft Hill, other than managing it for the purpose of rural recreation. Let’s hope that they still think that way when they can go no deeper in Croft Quarry.
This is the views I will see in a month when they change to daylight saving, well I mean sunsets. I get very excited about it. You have such a lovely area to capture these in.
