my name is mwd

Sometimes the world just amazes. On Saturday Laura and I biked up to West Kirby on the Wirral. West Kirby is on the tip of the Wirral peninsula, facing out over North Wales and into the Irish Sea. They have a nice marina there too, which has it’s own webcam, showing Wales across the water.

As we reached West Kirby late Saturday, I could see the sun was just setting, so rather than heading straight to Laura’s parents, I took us to the water front and witnessed a most amazing site of the sun setting over the sea. This picture totally fails to capture how wonderful it looked, but it’s all I have by way of example:

I appreciate that to those that live by the sea this may be a rather mundane scene, but I was totally blown away by it. In a few minutes the sun had set and gone, but for those moments the colours were unbelievable – the orange and yellows of the sky, the water took on an almost milky purple colour that the picture fails to capture, all trapped by deep clouds overhead. Our shadows were silhouettes in a rich red light. Having had a good long trek up on the bike, to be welcomed by this was simply amazing. A wonderful fortune of timing that we arrived just in time to see this spectacle. To be there with someone so special helped make it all that more precious a moment.