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Winter Takes it’s Toll………

It may well be the Spring Equinox to-day but it feels and looks like winter. But it is a winter that appeared to begin last June.  Heavy rains have saturated the ground and kept it that way for months on end, heavy winds have reaped havoc, whilst in many places in our wood it looks as if it has been long abandoned in despair……

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This was once a small, some would say insignificant stream, but it burst its bank in July and the rains have ensured that it has never returned to its former size.  The water level to-day is lower than of late but has left the makings of a new marsh area, the stream bed washed away months ago……

1B-20.3 Whilst signs of spring growth are still very few this young Beech still hangs on to last years leaves, reluctant to give them up till the new buds feel warm enough to burst….a small splash of colour in an otherwise drab woodscape.

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Lost Gloves

You may recall that I keep finding lost gloves on our woodland walks, here are two more from to-day…..

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Please note that AGAIN they are both left handed gloves……WHY?

On the basis that most folk are right handed, and normally pull on the left glove first, then the right glove and reverse the action when taking them off, you may come to conclusion that it is left handed folk who loose their gloves!  I wonder…..what the answer is I may never get to know.  But I bet the next glove we find will also be a left glove!

20th March

© David Oakes 2013

 

15 thoughts on “Winter Takes it’s Toll………”

    1. ….no I don’t walk alone! We meet a good number of folk and their dogs sharing the woods and fresh air. I now give them strange looks to see if they have both gloves (or none at all)!

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  3. I have a possible solution to the left-glove mystery. When shooting with a tripod with a light source behind the camera, I’ll often drape a glove over the top and back of the camera to cover the eyepiece to prevent any extra light from entering there and confusing the camera’s sensors, which can result in serious exposure errors. A couple of times I’ve picked up the camera-tripod and left the glove behind. I’m right-handed, so I’d probably use the left glove and keep my left hand in a pocket. Hope your stream-bed recovers!

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  6. You took me into this amazing world… I can imagine now how beautiful to walk there… Thank you dear David, I miss your beautiful country, I don’t know when I can visit again, but your photographs keep my soul in there… Thank you, have a nice day, love, nia

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  7. Why the left glove? One sollution is – when challenging someone to a Duel, you take your glove off and slap him with it – now that´s mostly being done by right handed people – so he takes off the left hand glove to slap the other with! Simple! Have you found any swords, pistols or bodies around these places?
    Glad to see you´re doing the gloves, maybe we should organise a joint exhibition!
    Regards
    Charles

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      2. Now you´ve got me going, I found a glove in Munich this evening on the way home – and yes it was a left hand one!
        This is very spooky but because it´s all about the left it´s also very “sinister”

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