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As it has started snowing again this evening I thought I’d publish another of my photos from last Sunday. This is of the River Chelmer which flows through Great Dunmow on its way, unsurprisingly, to Chelmsford and then on East.
Staying in Aythorpe Roding this shot was again taken at sunrise last Saturday…and yes, it really was as cold as it looks!
Wow – what a day – very nearly missed posting today, what with getting home from work to find one of our cats was very poorly and having to take him first to our local vets in Dunmow and then to the emergency vet in Saffron Walden…then rushing back to
Caught just before sunrise this was the moon on Saturday 15th January 2012 at 07.24am taken from Great Dunmow’s Doctors Pond.
If you’ve been following this blog for a few months then you may recall the Viper’s Bugloss, sea of purple photograph taken looking out of Rowney Woods back in July. That field now looks like this.
We finally made our escape from the confines of the house and Christmas and took a stroll around Rowney Woods this afternoon. Plenty of wildlife on view today including 3 hawks of some variety, a large variety of tits and finches, a number of grey squirrels and 29 deer. Not
Winter had certainly arrived on Sunday when we arrived at Rowney Woods, we even had the remains of some light snow in parts and the wind was very cold. The woods, as you would expect, are now looking very forlorn. Not long since, this junction was shrouded in green vegetation,
We finally got out and about again after 3 weeks either stuck indoors ill or out visiting family so it was nice to visit Rowney Woods today. Having just commented that we hadn’t seen any fungus in the woods we immediately spotted these.
Rolling, I think, is the adjective. It was deceptively steep when you walked up and down this area just outside Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex. It was the different colours of the ground against the blue of the sky that caught my eye.
A small family of these had gathered on the lawn in front of a delightful thatched cottage on the edge of Rowney Woods.
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