It had been a gloomy and busy time. I had high hopes of tracing this part of it but the weather wasn’t playing ball. The 16th started like much of the rest of the last couple of weeks, cloudy, and the brief bursts of midday Sun there were occurred while I was working. With the shadow off the View I was stuck for a few weeks.
On the 16th though the cloud was patchy and fast-moving, and I thought I’d risk it. The cloud gathered as I left the flat, like delinquent birds above a freshly-cleaned car. There’d been previous miracles and sunbeams of course and the spring air had been welcomingly mild for a week so I didn’t mind the walk, but by the time I got down there it was clear nothing was going to happen. The cloud had thickened so much that there wasn’t even a diffuse brighter spot to aim at, and the location for this shot was chosen more from the plot than anything else. So, no dice, and no more winter GMT marks for the map. Maybe the spring would lift my spirits and help fill the gaps on the last leg of the analemma…
Shard Analemma 