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Autumn is certainly in the air and we had a wonderful walk today which happened by ‘accident’.

We were driving home from doing some errands when I spotted something special in the distance. It was sitting, hunched motionless next to a pond. I asked DH to drive back and investigate. We parked the car down a track and started to follow our noses. It was very overgrown and we soon found ourselves in the thick of a woods:

In a beautiful wood

Surrounded by lovely old oak trees:

Ancient oak trees full of great energy and wisdom

We found food to sustain us:

perfectly ripe blackberries

High tech weather stations:

it looks like good weather for a while!

The first signs of autumn:

beautiful red leaves

and finally we found the pond I had been looking for:

waiting silently by the water

Where we waited (some more patiently for others) to see …

A heron flying above the pond looking for lunch

A heron!

It felt very special to see this bird, but it didn’t want us around, so we made our way back through the trees and left it in solitude to hunt.

It was a beautiful part of the countryside found quite by accident, but I think it might become one of our favourite places.