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Caption: I’m glad that I took lots of photos during these lockdown weeks as I suspect that, looking back, every week would have just melted into the next, without the definition offered by weekend walks or adventures, and that I wouldn’t have recalled the simple highlights. And looking back to these photos from week eight of lockdown, I also suspect that we had dull weather after the sunshine of previous weeks, and that the light wasn’t great aside from on a couple of evening walks, which I’ve shared here.
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Caption: These photos are from the start of the week, on the Monday evening, when I needed some air and headed out solo. I’d become very aware that most of the photos I share from the lagoons show the nice bits - areas of woodland, the pond, the swans, lovely light over the water. But this walk isn’t all bonny. The ash lagoons were created in the 1960s as a repository for ash from the now-demolished Cockenzie Power Station. And there are plenty of reminders of this industrial history.
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Caption: I like these old rusted signs, which were probably warning people to stay off this ash lagoon while the site was still ‘active’.
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Caption: And even though a giant pile of ash is, by definition, ugly, even that changes (a little) in this light.
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Caption: No spectacular sunset on this evening walk, but I can never resist saying hello to the swans.
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Video of River Esk
Picture of River Esk
Caption: And there’s beauty,
even in the gloom.
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Caption: #shotsoftheweek 11 - 17 MAY 2020
