Coming down hard enough to show off those tractor treads on my new Grubs boots. And it kept on coming as I walked down the road to my path onto the heath. I’ll take you down. Once on the heath I was positively mobbed by snowmen. I have never seen so many of them. What …
Early morning sun
I am not good at catching the early morning sun. It is not that I get up late – I am an early riser. But long habit draws me first to my desk and then, before I know it, it is 2pm and I am catching the late afternoon instead of the early morning sun. …
Early Spring
Up around the back of the Kenwood Dairies there is a small temperate zone where spring arrives a good deal earlier than on the rest of the estate. The ones out ahead of the pack are usually the camellias. In fact a lot of them were already in full flower down by the house before …
Swans in flight
Walking round the bottom of the men’s swimming pond two days ago I saw the pair of swans who are normally to be found on the boating pond setting out purposefully from the bank. But only seconds later they changed their minds and headed equally purposefully back towards me. They were obviously ambivalent about where …
Two gates, two trees and some birds
Some random images for Friday evening. Our first gate – up behind the Kenwood Dairies and looking across to the meadows. And then back across the heath later in the afternoon – the entrance into the ‘Athlone House garden’, a little section of the garden of Athlone House (the huge red brick Victorian mansion four …
Dead hedging
As I walked down my path to the heath yesterday I noticed not only that the space looked different but that there was activity afoot. I stopped to talk to one of the guys working there who told me that this was not hedge laying – when you partially cut through the stem of small …