The old and the new

Goodbye, old year! Looking forward to the new year....

Pier in Winter

The Connaught

The Connaught Pub & Kitchen, Hove Street.

One from earlier

I was in Shoreham-by-Sea today, meeting a friend for lunch here. The food was delicious but the weather was pretty horrible - wet, grey, windy - and it was far too dull for taking photographs. Here's a shot of St. Mary de Haura from earlier in the year.

They don't last long...

...but sudden bursts of sunshine are very welcome at this time of year. It made a nice change today to go out and not come home wearing wet soggy clothes.

X is for Xmas

This made me laugh - the giant snowman and Father Christmas are suspended from a window in Lansdowne Place.
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Spiral tree

Merry Christmas to all my fellow City Daily Photo bloggers, Jan x

A crisp day in Winter

Old Steine, Brighton.

The real thing

A reflected mariner

The UK is having an awful lot of wet weather; even on a dry day there are large pools of standing water which can't drain away. The reflection shows the Brills Lane side of The Mariner.

Royal York Buildings, Brighton

A Grade II listed building built in 1819.
You can see more sky photographs at today's Skywatch Friday.

At ground level

W is for Wheel

The Brighton Wheel is on Brighton seafront near the pier. You can read more about the wheel here on the Regency Society website and see how the wheel looks from Madeira Place.
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Watching the world go by

Looking through the window of Eat, Brighton.

Winter colour

Display outside Gunns Florist, 6 Castle Square, Brighton.

Number 21

The door at the end of Friday's path.

Front door

The door at the other end of Tuesday's path.

Leading to the front door 3

Tiled path, 21 Goldstone Villas.

Leading to the front door 2

Tiled path, 23 Goldstone Villas.

V is for Vivid

This morning's sky at 8.18am. You know the old rhyme - red sky in the morning - and the weather forecast doesn't look too promising for the rest of the day.
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Leading to the front door 1

Tiled path, 25 Goldstone Villas.

Ripples

Garden path

Path between two houses, Goldstone Villas.

Red brick, blue sky

Holy Trinity Church on the corner of Goldstone Villas and Blatchington Road.

Gingerbread trim

Fancy gable decoration, Eaton Villas.
You can see more sky photographs at today's Skywatch Friday.

Between the houses

Sunlight in the distance, Goldstone Villas.

U is for Unauthorised

I walked up to Hove Delivery Office earlier today to pick up a package and spotted this sign. Happily, a pedestrian strode into view and saved this from being a really boring image...
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Tree shadow

Hove Street on a bright, sunny morning.

The second window

The perfect Christmas tree

Seasonal window display, Hamptons Estate Agents, Church Road.

CDP Theme Day - My Street

This month's City Daily Photo Theme Day is My Street. I live on a corner where two streets meet; this is one of them, Hove Street looking south towards the sea with Princes Avenue running westwards. The photograph was taken from my balcony in November 2010  and this was how Princes Avenue looked exactly two years ago today.

Looking back 5

Sun going down, January 2011.
You can see more sky photographs at today's Skywatch Friday.

Looking back 4

Swans, Hove Lagoon, January 2010.

T is for Tree

A tall tree of the Christmas variety - so tall that it was impossible to get back far enough to shoot the whole thing. It's part of the Christmas display on the lower floor of Brighton's Churchill Square Shopping Centre.
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Looking back 3

Beach huts on Hove seafront, September 2011.

Looking back 2

April 2012 - sunshine and shadows in the churchyard of St Mary de Haura, Shoreham-by-Sea.

Looking back 1

Autumn colour, Pembroke Avenue, November 2010.

Daytime moon

Another photograph from yesterday, this time looking east across Hove Street to Hove Manor.

3.32pm

You can see more of today's sky photographs at Skywatch Friday.

Wet

S is for Scaffolding

Scaffolding covering the front elevation of Mitre House on Western Road, Brighton.
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Rustle, rustle

I love walking through crisp, dry fallen leaves; the sound makes me feel about five years old.

Cream against blue

St Stephen's Church, Montpelier Place, Brighton has a fascinating history including being demolished, moved  and rebuilt on the present site. The Grade II listed building hasn't been used as a church since 1939; these days it's owned by the Brighton Housing Trust (BHT) and is the First Base Day Centre for homeless people.
I shot this yesterday and the sky really was as blue as it looks; the weather was more like August than November!

Sunday morning

Sunshine streaming through windows, a sleeping cat and the anticipation of lunch with friends. Perfect!

Still grey

The weather's still grey and gloomy today - at least grey sky makes a good background for bare branches.

One I made earlier

A sunset from way back in November 2010; it makes a much nicer image than today's actual sky which is grey. Plain grey.
You can see more of today's sky photographs at Skywatch Friday.

Spiky, Goldstone Villas

R is for Rainclouds

These clouds looked full of rain and threatening but, as often happens here, they drifted harmlessly over Hove and straight out to sea without spilling a drop.
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Steeper

A little further along the road than yesterday - that's Compton Road branching off to the right with The Drove continuing steeply downwards in the centre of the photograph.

Steep

Looking down The Drove from the Dyke Road end and yes, the road is as steep as it looks.