Thursday 30 December 2010

Quiet Thaw

Thaws are often not enjoyable. They replace a bright new coat with the old drab one. And it’s common for the rise in temperature to be accompanied by grey skies and fresh raw winds from the west, feeling worse than the cold clearness of the days before. This thaw has not been like that.
Calm air has brought an immediate sense of relief. How long the glacier along the bridleway will be with us is anyone’s guess. Fog is only fun when you can see other places enveloped in it as today. Still we have oaks covered with brown leaves. The young beech are always reluctant to drop their leaves.
Stags stand around hardly feeding ................ as if it’s enough just to stand still allowing the mildness to penetrate the thick coats.

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