For whatever reasons I have not been paying that much attention recently to the intricate bark patterns that so many of the trees on the heath create, so here are just a couple of the ones I passed yesterday on my way back from our walk on Sandy Heath – below. And some rather fine …
Sandy Heath ponds
Leaves – dry leaves, wet leaves, drowned leaves…..
Dun coloured London plane tree leaves lying thick on the slope above the Boating Pond. Large and distinctive, stencilled out – three gently triangular sections meeting at the stem – each with its own main artery and branched veins. They look tired – a long hot summer – ready to crumble into mould. But look …
Sandy Heath pond
Over the other side of the heath, on Sandy Heath, there is an amazing pond. (For more of the fascinating history of Sandy Heath see this post.) It is large, flat, shallow, surrounded by trees and inhabited by several colonies of ducks – both ‘ordinary’ ducks and the wonderful mandarin ducks. But it is also …