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Been for a walk. Discovered the snow has turned sleety. Got a bit wet. Came home. Now having some soup and cheese.
#Northumberland
Colour photograph, although it looks like a black-and-white, of a snowy field in the foreground. There is a large winter oak tree to the right of the frame. A copse of evergreen trees lines the horizon. The sky is a blank snowy white.
Colour photograph of the head and shoulders of a female figure dressed in a blue waterproof coat with a blue woolly hat and her hood up. Only her glasses and her nose are visible. She looks very wetThe background is out of focus snow.


The scene as I left work today. It was very chilly, but also very lovely.
#Northumberland
Colour photograph of a copse of trees, some deciduous, some pines, silhouetted against a deep blue evening sky. The moon and venus are just visible through the branches.


Scenes from a year of walking in #Northumberland. I clocked up 600 miles in 2024, here, in the Lake District, and in Fife. Lots of great views, ans some lovely memories #Walking
Colour photograph of a roughly surfaced road running away from the viewer along the bottom of a gently sloping valley. The sky is grey, but low sunlight is catching the grassy valley sides.
Colour photograph of a grassy meadow peppered with white and yellow spring flowers. There is a small copse on the horizon. The sky is a clear blue.
Colour photograph of a late summer meadow, with long pale golden grass and the seed heads of flowers.  Hills are visible beyond. The sky id a deep blue with fluffy white clouds.
Colour photograph of a grassy slope covered in orange red bracken, with more bracken on the hills beyond. The sky is pale blue with puffy white clouds. The sun is low, and there are strong shadows.


When you’re a tiny balancing sheep, but you’re a bit broad in the beam, and have to balance on a fence rail rather than a post.
#SheepOfMastodon #Defaidodon #Northumberland
Colour photograph of a fluffy white sheep with a black face and small horns. It is lying down, and has been photographed so that it appears to be balanced on the top rail of a wooden fence. It is in a grassy field.


We had no internet yesterday, so I couldn’t post these pictures from my Boxing Day walk. It was pleasingly quiet, and although it was a bit overcast, the clouds were interesting.
#Northumberland #Walking
Colour photograph featuring a hillside sweeping down from the left. There is a road running along the right hand side of the frame with a post and wire fence and a five bar wooden gate. There are fields beyond the road and a pale blue sky full of mackerel cloud.
Colour photograph taken from a high advantage point looking down a long valley with gently sloping sides a river runs along the valley bottom. The sky is blue with white wispy clouds.
Colour photograph of a post and wire fence with a five bar wooden gate cutting across a moorland landscape of long tufty grass and rushes. There are hills beyond the gate and a mackerel sky.
Colour photograph of a grassy field with clumps of rushes in the foreground and the trunk of an old tree. There are dry stone walls one has a gateway in it next to the gate stands a white woody sheep with a black face and small horns looking at the camera.


#FootpathFriday
Not taken today, as it’s grey, drizzly, and altogether crappy, plus I am still in the grip of The Lurgy.
#Northumberland
Colour photograph of a broad grassy quad bike track curving up the side of a hill and away around a bend. The hillside is covered in winter bracken, which is glowing a bright orange red in low winter sun. The sky is a clear pale blue, with a small bank of pinky grey cloud. There are a few sheep grazing the hillside.


Astonishingly, I managed to avoid the rain today, and even saw a bit of winter sun. First long walk in my new boots accomplished without injury.
#Northumberland #Walking
Colour photograph of a hilly landscape. The dominant colour is the bronze of winter bracken. The low sunlight is shining from the right of the picture, throwing the left of the hills into deep shadow. The sky is blue with puffy white clouds.
Colour photograph of a rough circle of stones in the middle of which is a white painted trig point. There is rough grass in the foreground and the sky is blue with some low whitish grey cloud.
Colour photograph of a stretch of rough moorland grass with hills and valleys in the background. The low light is strong causing long deep shadows. The sky is blue with a ridge of white cloud running across close to the horizon.
Colour photograph of a clear grassy track running through tufty moorland grass away from the viewer. The grass is just catching the low sunlight which is turning it a pale gold. The sky is covered in threatening dark grey cloud.


The sun came out very briefly this afternoon, which was lovely.
#Northumberland #Walking
Colour photograph of a barley stubble field, mostly in the shadow if a tree in the right foreground, but lit by low afternoon sunshine at the back left. It is bordered by a hedge and small trees, which just catching the sun and glowing gold. The sky is cloudy and grey.