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Consign the visions to a secure corner of your thoughts and enjoy them yourself. I enjoyed and have my own picture from what you described. Even a boring back and forth job can have it's bright sides.
I drive around Morecambe Bay at least twice a week skirting the southern Lake District, the journey is deadly boring on one of the worst roads in the country, I have been making it for at least the last 20 years, sometimes daily. The compensation for me is the occasionally spectacular lighting and fabulous colours, especially in spring and autumn.
Over that period while commuting round the bay I have twice used my camera, neither time did I manage to capture the presence of the scene. And I was concerned all day about the security and safety of the camera while I worked. So I consign these scenes to memory and enjoy them for myself.
One enduring memory for me was one frosty morning about five years ago where the road changes from single to dual carriageway as it does many times; there was a permanent puddle in the road side, the traffic had splashed the water onto the hedge which had frozen, the morning Sun glistened in the ice covered branches and twigs and the remaining bright red Hawthorn berries provided a vivid colour contrast.
There was nowhere to stop and park, I couldn't be late because the builders would be waiting for me to open up the job. I briefly beat myself up over it but realised it was a good memory to be enjoyed. I feel memories are sometimes enough, even better that a photograph sometimes. Nature has never repeated the spectacle at that place although the puddle is still there, almost permanently.
Thank you for describing the scenes so nicely and sharing them with us, good to hear from you.
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Robert.