Let There Be Light....

Early mornings are not always better than the middle of the day. Bilberry picking is best left to later when the morning dampness has had a chance to go. Midges can be less troublesome in the dry heat of a sunny afternoon. Some wild animals prefer those times when the sun has had a chance to bake the ground and others have learned when people are likely to be around so confine their appearnaces to dawn and dusk.

Mornings do have other advantages. From earliest times people were cheered by the sense that each new day was a kind of re-birth; it's easier to be optimistic. Special lighting effects are commoner, and distant views of parkland are transformed by haze and long shadows.