THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Far out over the grey-blue waters of the North Atlantic, across three thousand miles of the Gulf Stream, the puffins have wintered, enduring the long fugues of the westerly gales under skies now black with storm and now clear and blue between scattered white clouds.  Sometimes the dull grey monochrome of the easterly breezes covered sea and sky.  Probably existence was hardest during the mighty cyclones of midwinter.

Lockley/Puffins, 1913