So nice to get out in the sunshine and walk without fear of slipping over in the snow. Well, there was a bit of snow covering the paths in the forest, but never mind it almost felt like spring. They say we might get snow next week again. The rain came pouring down yesterday and washed a lot of the snow away. The air was so moist and misty, the raindrops just hung in the branches.

I’ve chosen a spot from which to take the same picture of trees. if I get enough pictures over the year, I’ll be able to put them together as a movie of the seasons. When I was young at school, we made a whole fairy village at the base of a beech tree, using all the little caves in the roots as hobbit homes.

I love the base of the beech tree, I think it’s my favourite tree. The roots always knot up into interesting shapes.
Found a lump of snow on the side of the road that was full of grit. It made an interesting texture and reminded me of being on a glacier in the Columbia Icefield in Canada. Humans were bringing grit onto the ice on the bottom of their boots. The grit, being dark, warms up and melts the ice more than it would without the grit.