On the Edge VII: Another year in sunrises

I'm a bit late with my this year's round-up of sunrises, etc, from my bedroom window, which I do because 1) they mark the passing of my days, and 2) I like to gloat over my treasure. But here they are - mid-April 2021 to mid-April 2022 in sun tracks and skyscapes.

19th April 2021, 6.21am

26th April 2021, 5.59am

The return of the vapour trail

29th April 2021, 5.59am

23rd June 2021, 5.11am 

2nd July 2021, 9.41pm

Evening this time. A brilliant after-glow following a rainy sunset

6th September 2021, 6.49am 

7th September 2021, 6.39am

17th September 2021, 6.53am

Cloud hills towering over the Cotswolds this morning

21st September 2021, 6.33am

22nd September 2021, 7.06am

Still no ash tree for the sun to lodge in this equinox

3rd October 2021, 3.23pm

Rainbow for a daughter's birthday and a mother's death

9th October 2021, 7.47am

The last of the sun till next February. From now on we'll just get its tail-feathers

11th October 2021, 7.25am

18th October 2021, 7.27am

The briefest suggestion of a sunrise

3rd November 2021, 7.19am

13th November 2021, 8.46am

Sunrise all day with trees like these

23rd November 2021, 7.10am

26th November 2021, 9.02am

Storm Arwen incoming

29th November 2021, 7.41am

5th December 2021, 8.11am

Sky like a slightly amateurish watercolour this morning

22nd December 2021, 8.01am

Solstice

24th December 2021, 8.06am

17th January 2022, 16.33pm

The Wolf Moon

18th January 2022, 7.23am

9th February 2022, 7.34am

The sun is creeping back to the corner

12th February 2022, 7.25am

14th March 2022, 6.31am

15th March 2022, 6.36am

17th March 2022, 6.24am

20th March 2021, 6.25am

Happy Equinox, quoth the magpie, as the sun rises in the ash that's no longer there

21st March 2022, 6.19am

24th March 2022, 6.32am

26th March 2022, 6.16am

27th March 2022, 7.22am

31st March 2022, 6.56am

2nd April 2022, 6.37am

7th April 2022, 6.50am

A rough night, and now it's all a bit Samuel Palmer out there

9th April 2022, 6.32am

11th April 2022, 6.27am

16th April 2022, 6.47am

Half an hour after sunrise

Samuel Palmer at Chew Valley Lake and Compton Martin

The plan was to drop Son the Actor off on set and - given that I'd only picked him up from there six hours earlier - return home for a nap. But the glimpse of the lake from the causeway with reflections like marbled endpapers looked so beautiful ... 

... that somehow I found myself parked up at Herons Green Bay, watching egrets. Which weren't quite as exciting as the badger and two foxes we'd encountered on our home journey during the night, but pleasing all the same. 

And the sun bursting through cloud wouldn't have disgraced a painting by Samuel Palmer. 

I decided to pop to nearby Compton Martin and see if the village Church, called - possibly slightly confusingly - St Michael and All Angels was open. (Apparently, Martin comes from Robert Fitz Martin, who inherited the Manor from his grandfather during the reign of Henry I.)  

Clearly it was  still too early, which was a shame as it's one of only three surviving Norman churches in Somerset. Nevertheless, there was enough of interest on the outside of the building to ensure I'll be back down to see the inside in the by and by ... 

... like the carved corbels on the clerestory that so reminded me of the (rather more spectacular) ones at Kilpeck in Herefordshire. 

Can't quite make them out?

I'll take some better photos next time.