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Dawn light slowly comes in a snowy scene above the River Ness, Inverness, taken from the Castle Ramparts, Scotland.

Poem.

 

Deep-blue dawn sky breaks five days before Christmas.

Steep, snow-laden Castle-Ramparts.

Variegated Holly bush, and trees, are white-tinted.

Roofs shrouded in white by the winter snow-fall.

River runs dark and fast beneath three bridges.

River-bank, bridge and street-lights beam off the gushing water and glow in spears of warm, orange iridescent light.

Ben Wyvis stands imperious 25 miles north-west

under a blanket of snow and cloud.

Majestic conditions for this latitude, at this time of year.

Anticipation pulsates.

Not just Christmas.

A “White Christmas.”

 

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Uploaded on April 27, 2022
Taken on December 20, 2009