Yes, we really did have snow here in the UK, and yesterday DH, DD and I went on a lovely afternoon walk to make the most of it. Yes, our noses were chilling, and the lanes were indeed glistening...please be prepared for a very photo-heavy post coming up, cuppa and a biscuit may be needed ;)
Just two minutes from home the camera was already busy capturing these beautiful birch trees...
The horses were wrapped up warm in their winter coats and nibbling on treats given by caring owners...
Amazing winter wonderland...
The grand old house looking stately in winter...
I thought this tree trunk looked like a fox...
The rooftop of the grand old house looked magical, I love how the whiteness of the snow really showed up the redness of the brick...
Another birch looking astonishing in it's white bark...
We walked through a lovely old village with many cottages and a quaint little church...
More winter fields and sky...
The sun was setting so it was time to head back home...
Past old the old gravestones.. these put me in mind of the scene in Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" when the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come points Ebeneezer Scrooge towards his own epitaph...
The moon was rising...
More snow clouds rolling in...
And mist started to form, eerie in it's strange formations...
Eventually we were back at the birch trees we had spotted as we left home...
Such a wonderful walk, we enjoyed every moment of it (especially the short stop for coffee half way around the circuit!). The scenes I managed to photograph seemed to me to be, and I hope you will excuse the pun, frozen in time - many of the scenes would have been so familiar to our ancestors 150 years ago.
Helenxx
