Spring is sprung

Here's the Solent from Cowes parade, looking particularly spectacular on a glorious sunny Sunday....(no pun intended).











And here is Freshwater Bay on the west coast of the Isle of Wight, I'm looking down from Tennyson Down.

This down is named after Alfred, Lord Tennyson (writer of Charge of the Light Brigade and other well loved English poems) who lived nearby and loved walking there. On a day like this you can see why. Although the picture doesn't show the piercingly cold wind that was whipping across the down.

And here's a link to some antiquerian views of the Isle of Wight and some more information on it: http://www.freshwater.shalfleet.net/freshwater3.htm