#ScenicSaturday 13th April 2024: 

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, opinion, Photography

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.

Today’s photo shows an unusual view of trees. This one taken from a hot-air balloon ride we took for my wife’s birthday in April 2022. We took off from Bath and floated first across the city and then over the countryside for around 35 minutes. Great experience. From above, when the gas is not burning, you can hear people talking below because the ride is so quiet. The views are wonderful. I particularly liked this almost abstract shot with its diagonal line and three different trees casting their shadows obliquely due to the evening light as the sun slowly descended toward setting. The fields either side of the dividing hedge have signs of early crop growth, too.

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15 thoughts on “#ScenicSaturday 13th April 2024: ”

  1. Love the photo! Bath is a beautiful city. A few years ago I was in Bristol for a friend’s birthday and saw the balloons over the gorge. I would love to have taken a ride.

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    1. Thanks, restlessjo. The Bristol Balloon festival is quite a sight. But I’ve never been to it. This was a private balloon flight to celebrate my wife’s birthday (one of the items on her bucket list). It’s definitely something worth doing.

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    1. Thank you, Lynette. It also illustrates how ‘deceptive’ an isolated shot can be. This was one of very few fields that were actually flat in a landscape of gentle rolling hills.

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    1. Flying over the Serengeti sounds like a real adventure, Noelle. It would’ve been rather warmer than our flight over England in April, of course. But, you’re right, balloon flights are great fun.

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        1. Africa is a land so beset by tribal rivalries, often supported now by various religious groups, so I’m glad you were kept safe. I bet eating breakfast in the Serengeti is an entirely unique experience.

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