What makes you stop and watch?

[SusieG]

(...... I love that, JanieB)

And this morning I stopped to watch ..............................
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... A portly hot-air balloon seemingly suspended high, high in the pearlescent blue sky

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... Expanse of flaxen wheat, gently undulating like a lazy Mexican wave in the placid, waft of the breeze

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... Perceptibly endless panoramic view from atop the trail ..... my eye lingered on the distant wind turbines majestically rotating their lengthy, limbs in unison - sun glinting off them ....

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... The deep, low drone of a bee, busily working its way from flower to flower greedily drinking up the powdery pollen

[Snadger]

We rented a cottage in the Lakes earlier in the year , and it was next to an infant/ junior school.
It was lovely watching the 'little people' nattering away / giggling and crying out, and running rings around the adults .
It somehow felt like I was snooping but it was delightful seeing such innocent energy...put a grin on my face every morning!
Still does just thinking about it!

I used to own a house next to a school and believe me the novelty soon wears off! The good thing about it was that you never saw any bairns after school in the evening or weekends as they used to try and get as far away as possible!

[JanieB]

A long time ago now but when I was married to a farmer and walked our dog seeing a dormouse I assume scratching its back in the dust. Nowadays I would have taken a picture. It was enormoursly cute.

[Lumpy]

Most of the above but at the moment the Olympics.....


Sorry BB - you think that I would know better by now but anyhow..........


I enjoy the track events.......

[Sappidis]

Definately woodpeckers.... I'm forever looking up at night in the hope of seeing meteorites.

[veggiechicken]

Rainbows like this one a few days ago............



but I couldn't see a complete arch

[SusieG]

Just now ~ working in the garden, distant thunder rumbling ..... slow, thick heavy raindrops languidly plopping onto the ground around me ...........Then, a sudden clap of thunder directly above ~ I run for the shelter of the house and stop still, watching, transfixed by the sheets of rain now falling in a deluge .....

[SusieG]

Rainbows like this one a few days ago............

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but I couldn't see a complete arch

-------so I guess you never did find the pot of gold at the end of it ................... ?

[bramble]

I love watching the sunset.
The different colours of the clouds as late evening and nightfall approaches.
Trees blowing in the wind.
Stormy seas.
Leaves falling in the autumn.
Trees coming back to life after the winter.
And of course walking the beach in the evening as the tide changes.
I could go on and on. The beauty of nature.