Chance landscapes I

I will write more on the strange survivors of Georgian landscapes - south Liverpool, south east London, etc. Sydenham, Forest Hill, Allerton/Garston.

This morning I opened the window to grey skies, not very bright. But there was a chance reflection on the window which made the landscape look Alpine. The normal fields and low hills with trees and brown cattle seemed suddenly to have grown a wall of steep wooded hillside, dark green, with a spiky crown of fir trees. It was clear enough to loook real, but half an hour later the light had changed and it had gone.