Miles From Where You Are

Since before Christmas it has been raining, cold, gray and windy. On Wednesday, however, the clouds broke, the sun shined, and the grass was greener than I ever recall seeing it before.

On Wednesday, around 12:00pm UK time, the sky was blue indeed.

It was a magical sight not only because the sun had been hidden for so long, but also, if not mostly because, everything was so damned beautiful when Nature finally let the sun shine though.

It wasn't just a bright blue sky... it was a bright blue sky, like the brightest blue sky you've ever seen, with purple, dull blue, bright gray and dull pink clouds ... and then clouds (clouds that the sun took cover behind) that were Autumn colors with shimmering gold linings and that had sun-beams bursting out from behind them.
The fields weren't just green, either .... don't let green fool you; I know green is green and all, but the fields were a magnificent green that just doesn't exist in Florida landscape. I mean, I know it rains and all, but it doesn't rain this much without a certain amount of destruction, and nothing is ever this green after a tropical storm or hurricane.... There was flooding, yes, but the fields just reflected the magnificent sky all the better, and the green was simply greener than any green you've ever seen in grass before, and the whole scene was breath taking....

If I'd known that the sun would finally come out and show the landscape in all it's beauty, wonder and magnificence on Wednesday, I would have been eager to take a camera... but since every day since a few days before Christmas have been dreary, drab and depressing, I haven’t bothered to take a camera anywhere...
From now on I will count this as a serious mistake on my part and carry a camera on me always, for I am sorry not only to myself, but to anyone who loves beauty, the color green, or the sky in it's most unpredictable and beautiful states.

England is, despite all of it's nasty turns, a beautiful, beautiful country, and I am very happy -- perhaps even blessed -- to get to see so much of it so closely.