Because it’s not the big goals and successes in life that bring true happiness, but the little joys that you choose to notice each day.
Cheese and wine night! With our box from the Deli Society – it was wonderful!
I was stuck indoors for much of the week. But I’ve always got a few moments to appreciate those blue skies.
We finally had our first frosts – around two months late!
They were proper frosts too.
The pond froze!
Winter really showed up in style!
A warming work lunch!
Majestic old beech.
A wintery lunchtime walk.
The lake was mostly frozen too! If you look closely you’ll spot a slightly confused cormorant standing in the middle.
I saw two kingfishers, and in the brilliant sunshine their colours were AMAZING. I remember reading that a kingfisher’s colour is not due to the pigment of its feathers (which is brown) but their structure, which interacts with light to create a semi-iridescence and produce a vivid blue, so perhaps that’s why they appear SO startlingly bright in bright sun. You’ll have to look very closely to spot the kingfisher here, in the middle in the shadows…
Geese in a row.
There are still a few leaves hanging on…
Sunlight through trees.
What a glorious day it was!
It got frostier and frostier…
Cobwebs lit up everywhere!
Frost makes you see everything differently, and makes lovely the strangest things.
The bird feeders have been busy. It’s always tricky trying to get pictures of the bird feeders, but this robin was obviously too hungry to mind my presence!
Looking forward to the daphne opening!
I loved the sunshine warming my back and legs while I waited for the bus.
The Christmas tree in the Civic Centre.
