Low sun, high viewpoint

A snowy Sunday, so a peek at how the S7's coming on. No one around, so I take the opportunity to scale one of the soil mountains to get a view. And as I reached the top, the sun descended below the bank of cloud, illuminating the land.

Below: the S7 makes a 30-degree turn to the left before joining the S2 and S79 at the airport junction. Lovely skyline. You can see the camber in the roadway, good expressway design.

 

Below: switching lenses and turning towards the north-east; on the centre of the horizon, plumes of smoke from Siekierki power station. In the foreground, untended, unclaimed land between arable fields.

Below: zooming in with the longer lens for a close up of Jeziorki, top end of ulica Trombity. On the horizon, the roofs of Ursynów.

Below: looking south-west across the path of the S7 extension towards the Action warehouse, Zamienie. The new road bridge that will one day cross the S7 and link Jeziorki and Dawidy Bankowe still a long way from completion. Work has slowed down since the frosts came.

Below: ice broken up by tracked vehicles moving across the site. It's about 8cm/ three and half inches thick. Note my hi-vis coat. From a distance, I look like a construction worker. A useful disguise.

Left: sunset today in Warsaw was at 16:47, an hour and 23 minutes after the year's earliest. Time stamp on this photo: 16:33. No fresh snow for a while, but more due between tonight and Wednesday, with temperatures oscillating between -6C and 0C. Tuesday should be nice and sunny. Catching the sun - a good source of natural Vitamin D.

Note multiple sets of paw prints of hares in the snow.

Below: across the tracks, 16:41. Composition spoilt by vandalism. "Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah", as the Ramones once sang. 

Below: new housing at the far end of ulica Dawidowska, catching the last rays of the setting sun.

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Changing Jeziorki skyline