Through a windscreen darkly

At this time of year, and at a certain time of day (say around 7 o'clock in the morning) there is often a wonderful effect. Ground mist clings to the lower lying land, with trees poking through into clear air, and the rising sun shines on it all amidst gorgeously painted clouds of orange, yellow, purple, red and skies of clear, pale blue. It's a wonderful sight, fully compensating for the fact it is only 7 o'clock and freezing!

On our way to work each day we get a particularly nice view over the Vale of York as we come down the hill. And over the last couple of weeks we have had this experience of sunrise-on-ground-mist quite a few times. So when it was a foggy start recently I decided to take the camera along to see what I could capture through the windscreen of the car.

As we started off it was pretty foggy.

The end of the lane got closer and we thought we could see something

Yes, the farmhouse at the Beansheaf! We were going the right way.

Further on it began to lift a little and I held onto the hope that I would get the shot I wanted. Here are some lorries emerging from the dark and fog.

But this is my gorgeous view!

On a clear day it is much nicer - try and add in the ground mist and sunrise for yourself...