{"id":6137,"date":"2014-04-16T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2014-04-18T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:59:20","slug":"fabulous-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/fabulous-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been enjoying some exceedingly fine weather over recent days, even better than this time last year when I was working in the house and also on 56NE&#8217;s new panel. I had my worst year ever for flying last year and only managed a few measly hours because of poor weather, having to get my French licence and getting 56NE back into the air. However, I&#8217;ve been making up for it this month alone and we&#8217;re still only half-way through. I didn&#8217;t fly today because of having other things I needed to do, but the conditions would have been perfect with unlimited visibility, uninterrupted blue skies and very little wind. We had a high of 25\/26 degrees Celsius and it was like a warm Summer&#8217;s day back in the south of England, except here it&#8217;s still Spring with the leaves on the trees a brilliant green, the lilacs out in white and purple and smelling wonderful and trees everywhere smothered in blossom.<\/p>\n<p>I had two friends to stay for a couple of nights over the week-end while on their way to Spain and the weather was perfect while they were here. I cut my grass a day or so before they arrived and cut it again yesterday and now it&#8217;s beginning to look more like it does in Summer, a bit dry with one or two dusty patches. Even so, I thought that the house and garden looked a picture in the sunshine today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/1_16apr14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/1_16apr14_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, I played around a bit creating wide panoramic shots by stitching several images together in Photoshop. This year I have a new Panasonic camera that does the job for me automatically and here are a few shots that I took today of my house and front garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/2_16apr14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/2_16apr14_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/3_16apr14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/3_16apr14_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/4_16apr14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/4_16apr14_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also took a similar shot of the field across the road from my house, sweeping round from the north-east to the south. It gives a distorted view of the road because of the size of the viewing angle that it covers, but shows perfectly what fabulous weather we had today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/5_16apr14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/5_16apr14_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, Galinat can be seen in the distance from my front garden. I also took a conventional shot to the south-west using my camera&#8217;s telephoto lens and the conditions today meant that detail of the field could be clearly seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/6_16apr14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/6_16apr14_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Val&#8217;s arriving tomorrow for a few days and disappointingly, it looks as though the spell of fine weather will be coming to an end with a forecast of cooler temperatures and light showers over the week-end. However, I don&#8217;t think that we&#8217;ll let that dampen our spirits or spoil our fun \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been enjoying some exceedingly fine weather over recent days, even better than this time last year when I was working in the house and also on 56NE&#8217;s new panel. 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