Earlier in the Spring we met up with family near the river Usk on the England Wales boarder. The weather was spectacular with barely a cloud passing the sun and each morning I was up at 04.30 and heading out for the sun-rise and dawn chorus. I just took a simple kitbag of sketch-book, two or three pencils, erasor, binoculars and camera. I particularly wanted to get a painting of the sun rising over the River Usk and had done my research by looking at maps to try to spot good