Sunrise over Doctors Pond
Always a favorite location for me, but I don’t get here for sunrise very often…even though we are only about 20 yards away…bone idle!
September 30, 2012 No Comments
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Always a favorite location for me, but I don’t get here for sunrise very often…even though we are only about 20 yards away…bone idle!
Today was Dunmow Carnival day that finished, as usual, with a firework display. Because I don’t have enough pictures of Doctors Pond 😉 I took up residence with the ducks and bats and enjoyed the show from a distance.
The Dunmow Carnival chugs past our house every year…this year “chug” was the operative word as this tractor made it’s way up towards Dunmow High Street
Look through this 366 project and you’ll come across a fair few Doctors Pond shots. In my defence, when you get a sunset like this, why wouldn’t you shoot it?
Great Dunmow used to have a railway line running through it that started in Bishop’s Stortford and finished, 45 minutes later in Braintree (and vice versa). The passenger service ended in 1952 with goods traffic continuing to use the line until its close in 1969. Following the demise of the
If you follow the Flitch Way out of Great Dunmow towards Takeley you will come across the Dunmow Cutting. The Flitch Way was, of course, the main Railway line between Bishops Stortford and Braintree and the Dunmow Cutting is a remnant of that with its path between 2 steep sided
I spent a very pleasant hour this evening sitting by Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow watching the ducks, geese, moorhen and house martins flitting around the pond. I’ve lived here for about 12 years and can’t remeber a time when we have had so many Canadian Geese living around the
Debbie gave me a colour challenge of purple this evening, as I was struggling to come up with something to photograph. This was fine, except, of course, I’m colour blind! Not to worry – it got me out of the house and I took this photo of Dunmow High Street
Well, it’s new to me ;-). Followers of my 365 project will have seen a number of shots of Doctor’s Pond over the last 8 months or so. I took a stroll up Beaumont Hill heading out of Dunmow and saw a public footpath sign I hadn’t seen before, followed
I spent 20 minutes sitting on a bench on Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow one Saturday evening. Just enjoying the warm summer peace that you get here…sometimes. I spotted the ducks flying in a caught this shot of them as they came into land on the pond.
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