It was a bright day yesterday, as the temperature fell below zero, and so with the skies blue, air freezing and the (previously very muddy) tracks crisp and crunchy with ice underfoot I went to the woods.
I love the effects of the light streaming through the winter branches, and reflecting off the frozen water.
This gathers in all the pock-marks, puddles and pools that still remain from the mortars of the wartime years.
The ice seemed to have swirled around the trunks, shrivelled shoots and roots or the trees had simply risen up out of the water...
The water looked mysteriously milky in some parts and plain murky elsewhere...
Especially with the sunlight gleaming over the surface... And of course the sun brought out whatever colour was to be found...
Some of these were left over from the autumn...
And others were just evergreen...
And never far from any of these, man-made traces - frozen tyre-tracks in this case on the path back home...
A beautiful light for taking photographs. The crisp, clear frosty days always seem to be the tonic to help us get through the cold damp days of winter in Northern Europe!
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