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……
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……
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…..
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
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