22/12/10 - Let it snow, let it snow ....

 Let it snow, let it snow ....

In the Outwoods, above Loughborough, a large 'dump' of snow ... not the one in purple !!!

16/12/10 - Destruction !

Destruction !

Following the line of the trees for about 100m there used to be a reed bed that took the overflow water from the houses about 500m away on the right. The reeds were home to many birds and other animals that took shelter there or used the materials for nests etc. But the reeds were not up to standard and the drainage was not good enough so they ha to go and a gravel drainage ditch had to be built.

I am told that it will, in time, re-grow ... but what of now ?

15/12/10 - Unrelenting encroachment ...

Unrelenting encroachment ...

A large field on one of my favourite walks has suffered the effects of unrelenting encroachment ... the bulldozers have marked out the new road and houses are beginning to sprout up on a daily basis ... need to find another route to walk !

4/12/10 - The road home

The road home

The last stretch of the road home from a long walk in the snow ... soft and peaceful with snow just gently falling all around ...

10/11/10 - Its never too cold

Its never too cold

Staunton Harold Reservoir on a 'bracing' day ... all of the sails in a small lagoon area away from the main breeze !!

09/11/10 - Follow me

Follow me

You can't see how long this line is but it does stretch away to the left and to the right ... and it kept moving

08/11/10 - Hide

Hide

New bird hide on the side of Staunton Reservoir, South Derbys, near Melbourne

07/11/10 - Calke Abbey

Calke Abbey

Seen from the lakeside walk ... all boarded up for the winter ... sky grey/blue, 6 deg C

06/11/10 - River Soar

River Soar

Near Normanton on Soar on a wonderful November morning, blue sky, sun shining as best it could, a riverside walk of 11 K

05/11/10 - Red Indian Country

Red Indian Country

Spotted along one of my walking routes just outside Loughborough

21/10/10 - New green shoots

New Green Shoots

The winter wheat is looking good ... fresh new shoots of growth ... seen any others lately?

20/10/10 - Oak

Oak

Still in full leaf in spite of being exposed out on the top of a hill ... beautiful day, sun shining and blue sky ... cold wind

15/10/10 - The other man's grass ..

The other man's grass

Concentration is the long and short of it all ...

12/10/10 - Slab

Slap

The photo gives no impression of the steepness of this slab of rock on the edge of Charnwood Forest

09/10/10 - Before the fall ...

Before the fall ...

This super tree displaying its still-green leaves in the weak sun of autumn ... soon it will be just branches ...

07/10/10 - Badger Trails

Badger Trails

This is a badger underpass built into a newish road ... can't see many prints but there are certainly signs close by of mammoth earth works ..

06/10/10 - Autumn fruitfulness

Autumn fruitfulness

Along a favourite walk the fungi are prolific in the wetness of the wooded edges

21/09/10 - Ascent

Ascent

With torn left knee ligaments ... up was hard ... down was ******

03/09/10 - Locks

Locks

The amazing flight of locks (No 29 - 44) which takes the Kennet and Avon canal over Caen Hill near Devizes

02/09/10 - Fishing

Fishing

On the Kennet and Avon canal just west of Devizes