29/12/10 - Foggy trees

Foggy Trees

Snow all gone but so has visibility ... difficult to show just how foggy it really is

24/12/10 -The North wind doth blow

The North wind doth blow

... and it plasters the trees with snow throwing their shape into relief ..

19/12/10 - Late afternoon sun

Late afternoon sun

At 3.00 in the afternoon with the temperature at -4 degrees the strength of the late afternoon sun shines warmth upon the bare trucks of the birch trees

02/12/10 - Winter trees

Winter trees

Two for the price of one today ... just love the way that the snow outlines the branches

30/10/10 Autumn Colour

Autumn Colour

Just outside the house ... beautiful trees

23/10/10 - Trees in decline

Trees in decline

Behind them, on the edge of the wood, trees still stand in full leaf at the end of October. But in the field are those that have seen few leaves this year and perhaps will never see leaves again. I fancy that the winter winds will break their naked and de-barked boughs, and, come next spring, they will lie horizontally pending endless decay, their life and job done.

I wonder at their age and what they might have seen and how many summer suns have warmed them. I wonder how many sheep have sheltered in their shade and under their rain battered umbrellas.

The grass is green this year and the October sky is blue ... the weak sunlight highlights the passage of yet another year.

18/10/10 - Symmetry

Symmetry

Nature has a mathematical eye ...

30/09/10 - The leaves are turning

The leaves are turning

As we leave September behind the leaves are turning and the mornings are getting misty ... Autumn is clearly on the way

27/08/10 - Evening sun

Evening sun

7.00 PM and the sun just drops down behind the trees and sparkles through the leaves

08/06/10 - The trees have it

The trees have it

Another from my tree collection

06/05/10 - On the bench

On the bench

Saw this wonderful outdoor bench at an exhibition and totally fell for it ... so tactile.

02/05/10 - Cannock Chase

Cannock Chase

This is the area in the middle of the British Orienteering Championships map of Wolseley Park on the far northern extremity of the Chase. A beautiful place to walk and a deceptively disorienting place to race.

28/04/10 - Reach for the sky

Reach for the sky

Brand new and out into the spring sunlight ... catkins balance precariously pointing to the sun.

27/04/10 - Wot No 'ed?

Wot no 'ed?

PGCE student measuring the height of a tree by looking back through legs at the top of the tree to get an approx angle of 45 degrees. Then measures distance to bottom of tree and by some high powered maths (isosceles triangle) knew that the height of the tree was her distance from it !

25/04/10 - What a spread !

What a spread!

This magnificent tree is in the grounds of Bolsover Castle

24/04/10 - Bark - texture

Bark - texture

I seem to be getting a 'thing' about bark ... hmmmm !!

23/04/10 - The rough with the smooth

The rough with the smooth

On one of my favourite walks there is a lane along which there is a great number of very, very old oaks ... this is one of my favourites. The texture of the bark and the twists of the trunk really tell a tale.

20/04/10 - Bark

Bark

I really am a tree person

16/04/10 - Tree for Lisibo

Tree for Lisibo

Saw this amazing old oak and thought of Lisa's tree photos

15/04/10 -Willow tunnel

Willow tunnel

When this grows up to be a big tunnel it will be an exciting place to be.