Come and take a walk with me! I’ll take you on my daily exercise walk.
My eye will take me to a variety of things. I’ll tell you why. I’ll tell you my thoughts.
It started in the front garden where Spring has set the plant aflame with flowers.
We had just reached the end of the road, by the church when I remembered I did not have my fitbit on. So I went back for it. Liz walked on. I said I’d catch her up. I never saw her again!!
But she would have got fed up with me stopping to take photos so it was probably for the best.
The church is on a flat topped mound. I reckon there used to be a stone circle there. The church was probably plonked on it.
The pub is unfortunately shut. We are social distancing.
There are lots of rainbows outside the school. The kids are telling us that this will soon be over and we will be alright!
The dandelions are loving it.
Rainbows in the windows.
And off down the back lane. Many of the trees are coming into bud. The new leaves create a beautiful green.
There are white drifts of May blossom.
I continued walking up the lane.
There were batches of daffodils and a hawk hung on the wind.
I was hurrying, trying to catch up with Liz. She walks too fast!
The track took us across fields towards the woods.
I just loved the shapes of the new buds.
Through the gates and into the woods.
Some of the kids had built a den (or was it a Gruffalo house?).
The birds were chirping but I couldn’t catch them. They were too quick.
I got the squirrel though.
I reached Driffield. Arriving at Riverhead – the start of the canal, lined with warehouses. The canal used to be a major thoroughfare for commerce.
Here’s the Bluebell Pub in Driffield. Bluebells are popular.
I started walking along the canal.
A couple of kids were fishing! One told me he’d caught two fish – 1 lb trout.
The first of the locks.
I love trees. They are still largely skeletal at the moment.
The path went alongside the canal.
I managed to get a few shots of the many birds.
That’s the oxbow of the river that runs alongside the canal! I liked the reeds.
The canals were choked up with waterweed. Great for wildlife! I could hear frogs croaking but could not find one.
Another bird!
The track took me past some lovely trees and down hedgerows.
It’s a bit like fairyland!
I arrived at the next lock with a fish farm to the side.
I was walking along a path sandwiched between the canal and the road.
I love the moss on the dead wood.
Across the fields is the church at Wansford.
At the lock in Wansford. I liked the reflections!
This is the old hollowed-out elm tree that our kids used to play in. I’m amazed it is still there.
I liked the patterns of the waterweed and reflections.
Crows nesting in the trees.
I loved the patterns of these waterweed and reflections in the sunlight.
At Wansford.
This is the old watermill.
More great waterweed. There are trout darting around here. Some are big!
There were flowers on the banks.
I was very taken with these. I think they are wild orchids.
I was now walking up the beck. It is quite fast flowing and the water looks crystal clear.
I really liked these buds – the colour and shape.
Skeletal trees, banks of May blossom, old tree-trunk festooned with ivy.
Beautiful patches of yellow celandine.
I really liked the patterns creating by the drilling of this field.
This old brickwork bridge was now crumbling and covered in ivy and creepers.
A couple of days ago there was no yellow. The flowers have opened.
Reed banks and ivy on trees.
In the distance I saw these birds on a telegraph line.
I was very impressed with their numbers. Were they waiting for the farmer to plant their seed?
There was something about this plantation with its floor of yellow celandine.
Snowdrifts of white May blossom.
Across the railway lines. Through the gate.
The banks, blackthorn and crystal-clear water running over the chalky stones.
Even the sheep are becoming punks and dying their hair.
Into mole city. I’ve never seen so many mole-hills. The whole field was full of them.
Celandine, sheep and moles.
More rainbows!
The mere and the church. Nearly back – knackered!
I hope you enjoyed your walk! I did.
Now for a nice cup of tea!!
