First Spring walk through the woods

japra | Mar 10, 2009 | Comments 20

We took a walk in Windsor Great Park on Sunday. It was a little cool, and there wasn’t much in bloom yet (only a few daffodils). Still, we had two lovely hours in the fresh air and sunshine. As soon as we got into the car, however, it started to sprinkle. And as soon as we got home, it poured! By that time, we were snug in our conservatory with steaming bowls of baked potato soup.

It was a little bit sad walking through the woods this time. In my own way, I’ve started saying goodbye to this part of England. We can still come and visit once we move into Central London, but it won’t be as easy or as quick. Luckily, there are plenty of beautiful parks in town.

We’ve had many beautiful Spring mornings lately. It does usually rain in the afternoon, though.

We love Windsor Great Park. I hope we can manage to do some more walks before we move.

See, isn’t it pretty here? And when the flowers start to bloom, it smells so good too. Like dryer sheets.

For HP fans, scenes from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were filmed near here. I could picture HP and friends walking through this wood to get to Hagrid’s hut.

Here’s what I like to do on these walks: take too many photos of moss-covered stumps. I think I took a thousand photos of stumps.

And at least a few hundred of interesting fungi on fallen logs.

And speaking of fallen logs, Mr. DJ and Roxi had fun crossing a ditch atop this one.

Where was Trudy? In the water, of course. She was oblivious to the cold. She jumped right in at the very first opportunity. Unfortunately for us, she found a rather mucky pond. She smelled REALLY BAD after this wade. At some point, I was afraid she was stuck in that mud and we would have to fish her out. You should have heard all the people around us when Trudy jumped in here and saw it was muddy… sympathetic groans!

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