A snowy walk in North Shropshire

[cmcmck]

Snow overnight during the week and glorious sunshine next day.

A walk was impossible to resist! :o)

This is Lime Kiln Lane, about four hundred yards from our front door:





We live in a very watery landscape and the streams are very full after a wet Winter!



We headed into Lime Kiln Woods:



Brock had been about. The old one-badger, my spirit animal.





Mr Reynolds had been around too. Foxy, Reynardine.



Marsh grass under the snow:



And gorse (briar)



Up through Huntington. Believe it or not these were mine workings for centuries!



Gorse putting out Spring flowers even in midwinter under snow. They say that  when gorse is in flower, kissing's never out of fashion (it blooms all year round) :o)



This is an old dew pond (designed to catch dew and give sheep a drink in the days before water was piped to troughs) frozen solid!



And we headed towards the Wrekin Forest. This is popular 'walkies' territory hence the foot (and paw) prints!:



I'll post more from this peregrination another time!

Comments

[shirebound]

They say that when gorse is in flower, kissing's never out of fashion (it blooms all year round)

Love it! :)

[cmcmck]

:o)

[yourlibrarian]

Cool to see the badger and fox tracks!

[cmcmck]

Nice to know they're about.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Ooh, that's bright and lovely! I love that pic of the soft sun shining through the trees. :) And the stripes in the last one!

[cmcmck]

It was only a couple of inches, but even that changes the landscape completely.

[pameladean]

Oh, these are so lovely. The gorse blossoms and all the water and the winding snowy roads.

P.

[cmcmck]

We live in such a watery landscape- stream and springs all over the place. A lot of these feed the rivers Severn and Tern depending which side of the hills one is on.

[littlewolfteeth]

You live in a beautiful place. :) I love all the tidbit lore and info you have too. That's really neat.

[cmcmck]

We moved here just five years ago, so there's been so much to learn, but we both love folklore.

[mc776]

That shot of the fox tracks!

The glittering snow, the soft "rolling hills" of light and shadow under the branches, the footprints leading away to somewhere... there is something distinctly (inasmuch as such things are ever describable as distinct) faerie about it...

[cmcmck]

There is much fairy lore locally- the Wrekin is a sleeping dragon in local folklore. :o)

In another tale, the hills were formed by an angry (and thick) Welsh giant.

[turlough]

Lovely photos! The snow-covered gorse flowers are so cool! I've never seen badger tracks before - their paws are just as broad and sturdy as their bodies.

[cmcmck]

They are big diggers and tunnellers of course!