Walking In The Rain

Flamingos at Coton Manor Gardens, Northamptonshire

With a busy schedule and with more than our fair share of rain this last week, my training for our C2C adventure has been limited to a shortish walk each day in order to keep everything moving satisfactorily. I have certainly had a couple of soakings over recent days, and have trudged through more mud than I can recall for a good while. On the bright side, the sun has made an appearance on my walks a couple of times, and today I’m just sharing a few views and some pictures of the spring flowers from my walks on these brighter days.

The wonderful hues of sedimentary ironstone, shown here at Coton Manor, are a feature of north Northamptonshire where Rachel and I had a super weekend with close friends Rick and Eleanor

The heathers in their garden take me back to my moorland walks last summer – a fantastic display for late February!
Back at Coton Manor Gardens some snowdrops endure into late winter . . .
. . . joined by some brilliant crocuses . . .
. . . and an unfamiliar blue flower – can anyone put a name to this please?
Today dawned bright in the Chilterns, for a wonderful five miles over the fields and down into Berkhamsted
Some early daffodils by the wayside, . . .
. . . a cluster of their rather smaller cousins, tête-à-tête . . .
. . . and some ‘closed-cup’ snowdrops, surviving into spring amongst the still un-shed leaves of a copper beech

So, another week passes, with a month to go now until Rob and I embark on our C2C walk. Let’s hope that the sun shines through a little more often now, as spring progresses.

Taking in the sun!

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