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Bloomfield Crescent, ILFORD, IG2 6DR

This picture would look brilliant depicted as a watercolour painting! This is an easterly view of the rainbow, taken from my back garden. The pole at the left of the photograph, if you're wondering, is a former flagpole.

This is the same view of my back garden last night, but during daylight.

One of the back gardens on nearby Milton Crescent has these five grand evergreen trees (if any knows what species they are, please say!), although they're hardly evergreen now! View taken from my back garden looking north-east in the direction of Newbury Park.

In the space of just 40 minutes from the rainbow photo, the sky has once again darkened significantly, and the rainbow has all but vanished! You can see that the lamp-posts on the road are just starting to warm up too!

While I'm in the mood, I thought I may as well take a look at the back garden. This picture was taken using the flash, since this scene would've just looked black with the orange glow from the lamp-posts in the background had I not used it and it really brings the scene and snowballs to life! Note how the hydrangea in the bottom-right of the image seems to look as if it's come back to life with the snow collected on the dead flowerheads! The broad-leafed plant at the left of the picture is a yucca, in case you're wondering! View taken looking north-east towards the A12 Eastern Avenue.

I thought I'd experiment with the flash on my camera and so I took two photos of the snowflakes rushing past the lamp-post outside the front door. This one was taken with the flash turned off. Compare this with "Snowflakes rushing past the lamp-post #2".

This beautiful song thrush made an appearance in the back garden this morning to cheer us all up! Note the leopard-like brown markings on its abdomen.

A residential road, which doesn't appear to be a crescent

This is the same view as "Snowflakes rushing past the lamp-post", but zoomed out slightly and with the flash turned on. Note that you can now see the house across the road and more detail of the shape of the lamp-post, the lamp-post is less glary and has more of an orange glow to it, and the snowflakes come to life in their true colour! Just goes to show you what the flash can do!

This is the same view as taken yesterday, but today has been a very clear and bright day indeed, and ended rather subtly with this colourful sunset. Luckily the new block of apartments being built is not tall enough to completely block out our wonderful sunsets, but it is still rather an eyesore as compared to what the Odeon was, especially with the cranes in view!