When you’re a kid you spend a lot of time looking up. You don’t have much choice; pretty much everything is bigger than you. While the downside of this is bumping into things and treading in dog shit a lot (Oh for God’s sake look where you’re going!) a major benefit is that you get to see a lot more of the sky, squirrels, birds and so on.

So this morning, because the sky was so clear and not a drop of rain in sight, I have been having fun putting the camera on the ground and seeing what happened. I made friends with several dogs and got funny looks from lots of different people.

I also found a colony of mushrooms growing out of the not yet completed new boardwalk timbers, only a few feet from the sea.

I think I’ll do it again sometime.