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Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary,  Wednesday,  6th January 2010

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snow on 6th January
Brockadale

MORE SNOW and I have to admit I enjoy the daily workout of clearing it from the drive. I’d rather do it now while it’s powdery than let it turn to slush then refreeze.

I turned my attention to a map for my booklet today, enlarging a small section of the 1841 Ordnance Survey map, editing out an administrative boundary and a some overlapping places names then colouring it in using the paintbrush and paint-bucket in Photoshop, set to ‘darken’ (to avoid obliterating the black lines) and ‘lighten’ (to replace the black river with blue).