Striking Contrast…..Powerful Divide

            Polhawn near to Rame Head on the eastern edge of Whitsand Bay in South East Cornwall….

Turning my gaze and attention away from the turquoise sea for a while and looking inland across the golden fields and their randomly positioned bales of hay, I could see the cotton wool clouds, amidst all that remained of their blue backdrop, meeting with the dark sky looming forebodingly above and creating a truly powerful divide. 
That intense darkness consequently created a vision of striking contrast between itself and the light of the sun bathing the aforementioned golden fields before, amazingly, passing over and fading away without producing a single drop of rain - yet another one of the many myriads of wonderful displays and experiences which Mother Nature chooses to share with us.

This photograph from August 2014 seems a very appropriate one to look back at on this, the day of the partial Solar Eclipse when images of the contrast between Darkness and Light are so prevalent in our minds. Yet, at the same time, amidst these thoughts, we also have to consider the aspect of balance as we reach the Spring, or Vernal, Equinox and the length of daytime and night are at their closest. It is expected to be nineteen years before these two events coincide again…..

I wish a very happy Spring Equinox to everyone in the Flickr community and hope that the coming season, and those which follow it, bring us all plenty of opportunities to experience sights such as this and many chances to capture Nature’s inspirational beauty and soul enriching magic….

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All along the Wagons 
All along the dusty trail
Seventeen years not over a day
Like children in the wild.
Mother’s milk still wet on your face
And no one to pray for your safe journey home.
Out beyond the desert
Across the mountains by the lake.
Servants who leave their master’s house
Are walking all the way.
The golden fields that beckoned you
Are darkened by the years....

Evocative words taken from Deep in the Motherlode by Genesis (1978)
Lyrics written by Mike Rutherford 

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Taken on: August 23, 2014

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