Dear LPG,

Is there any other reader out there in LPG land who, every now and then becomes a bit fixated on the weirdest of topics?  I found the picture that I asked LPG to post with my message and it got me started again.

Here is one such item that comes to my mind with all too frequent regularity just at the moment.  I once remember, in the very distant past, playing a game of I Spy while driving my children home one winters evening and it kept them guessing for ages.  It was something beginning with T.  Something that we each see every day but that few of us even notice.

I am talking about twilight, and not the zone.  That television program seems to have turned its significance into a time that will herald darkness and the macabre, from what I have heard about it, although I have to admit to having never seen more than a trailer.

I find that quite sad really because, if the sun is in the right place there are some beautiful scenes to be observed at both times of the day when it occurs.  I wonder how many people realise that twilight not only heralds the darkness of night.  Both dusk and dawn are designated as twilight and I was quite surprised to find that meteorological forecasts, of when to expect both morning and evening twilights to occur as the seasons roll by, can be found on the internet.  Another thing I have learned is that there are three different genre of twilight. 

But all that aside, every so often there is a really spectacular sight to be seen. I believe that it is a sight that is most appreciated by those who regularly leave their homes or look out of their windows quite early in the mornings or quite late at night, the joggers and farmers, and I think that for all too many pensioners such activities might be a thing of the past, but if you find yourself out and about or looking through a window at just the right time of day, the sun might just be in the right place.  It could well be worth getting your mobile phone’s camera out of your pocket.

GF, Sydenham.

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