Buck Up, Look Up

The days are getting short and it is to easy to spend too much time indoors slumped over the keyboard in our ‘back office’ a north facing room, that only manages to get a dash of sunshine at sun set on the longest day of the year, at this time of the year it is a dark room.

Today has been glorious, cold but bright, so ‘I abandoned ship’ for an hour this afternoon and went for a walk and got myself a fix of sunshine, it was much needed. I had a chat with the horses who are wise enough to be ‘rugged up’

Walked through the copse, and looked up at the beach leaves

The scot’s pine

And I am not sure what species this tree is, but I like its bark

The beech tree made rather a nice filigree pattern, against the sky.

I liked the shadows on the dry stone wall

The Ivy is rather splendid too

And you have to respect this alder tree, for hanging in there; know locally as the ‘lightning tree,’ it should have blown down by now. The woodpeckers keep hammering away at it, it get’s more battered with every season.  I like the way it has pulled up rocks from the soil, amongst it’s roots as it has grown.

At 2pm, the frost was still lying in the shadows of the walls

Now I only have an hour and a half to do an afternoons work, never mind it was worth it.

 

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