Last Light of 2018

The last day of 2018 and the last light of a darkish winter day of anticyclonic gloom, a slight gap in the clouds over Wales allows a few rays of sunlight to filter through, lightening the mood at the end of the day.

31st December 2018 and I walk down to the beach to hopefully capture the last of the daylight for 2018. It had been a dark grey day of anticyclonic gloom, with few breaks in the clouds evident but I walked down in the hope that there might be a glimmer of magic before sunset. That hope was rewarded as a gap in the clouds over Wales allowed the last rays of sunlight to filter through, casting a warm orange glow on the waters of the River Dee and the Welsh hills above Holywell.

Down on the beach there is a cool north westerly breeze whilst, out on the horizon, a grey curtain of rain is evident, masking off the line between sea and sky. the tide is incoming.
Over Wales there is a glimmer of light, a gap in the clouds, probably caused by the mountains of Snowdonia, is letting a patch of golden orange sunlight filter through, and it falls in bright rays of light falling across the hills and shining off the sea on the coast near Holywell.