The Dorset seasons in pictures... October

This is the view I will photograph every month for a year. 17/10/2020

This summer, I discovered a wonderful little corner of the Dorset countryside just above my favourite place (and the location of my third novel and work-in-progress, The Right Place. Where is this? Find out HERE). 
You can park easily for walks, there are green slopes and strip lynchets, coppices, and a wonderful view over the coast, Chesil Beach and Portland. 
I love this little corner so much that I have chosen it for my experiment: to take a picture of the same place every month to report on the passing of the seasons on the Dorset countryside. 
I am now exactly at the time my third novel starts: early October, going into November and moving beyond the New Year. 
I don't have a precise or ultimate schedule for the action - I'll just let the story carry me wherever it wants to. 
I have now passed the 29,000 words mark on my first draft, but the worries and uncertainty of Real Life still have too strong a grip on me to allow me to dedicate myself 100% to my book. 
I still dream of hitting my deadline of 31st December for Draft 1, but it now seems very unlikely. 
​I will do my best in the circumstances... 
Saturday was the perfect day for a quick walk on the South Dorset Ridgeway. 
Walking there last week, the lyrics of High, the song by New Model Army, came to mind.
​They are all the more relevant at present. 

The Coastal Road, the most beautiful road ever.

The sun plays with the sea off the coast of South Dorset.

The silhouette of St Catherine's Chapel.

Walking on the Ridgeway on Saturday, with the sun shining over the sea and the cliffs of the Jurassic coast, I was reminded of the lyrics of High, the beautiful song by New Model Army.
​They are all the more relevant at present. 

The movers move, the shakers shake,
the winners write their history
But from high on the high hills
it all looks like nothing
The movers move, the shakers shake, the winners write their history
But from high on the high hills
it all looks like nothing

                                                                         @Attack Attack