Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Good morning all, hope you are having a great weekend.

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

Winter Walking

Hello everyone, hope you are having a lovely weekend.

Yesterday DH and I had an early start, dropping eldest son and his friend off at the train station - off on a jolly to see their favourite football team (who drew 1-1!) so we took the opportunity to get the supermarket run finished early so we could head off into the local countryside for a brisk 8 mile walk. 

The weather was suitably chilly and breezy for the time of year, and of course I had my trusty camera with me. So here are a few of the photos I snapped as we walked along:

Local council education centre - oh what we teachers will do to attend a meeting at this place, it is absolutely beautiful, and the lunches are superb!

Church in one of the villages we walked through, made from our local stone and slate.

 They had a little Christmas Tree, but I was taken by the old gravestones - I have to confess to really enjoying walking around old church yards, the memorials tell so much about people from times gone by.

Winter views across the fields, all the crops have been gathered in and now the fields are sleeping in readiness for the spring.

And finally, some seasonal colour!

Well, must away as several seasonal jobs need doing!

Helenxx