Started reading: The Year in the Countryside by Frances Pitt 📚

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Red catchfly at Woods Mill.

If you go down to the woods today…

A tree stump surrounded by ivy at Woods Mill.

Dragonflies at Woods Mill.

Two dragonflies in the Sussex woods.

I needed this.

The pond at Woods Mill, Henfield, Sussex
And, really, nothing is more political than the way we engage with the world around us. We have an obligation to see the world for what it is, the bad as well as the good, and we have to blinker ourselves to keep on pretending that it is not broken.

– From The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚

Bank holiday breakfast in a wee café deep in the Sussex countryside.

Evening walk at Woods Mill.

The lake at Woods Mill nature reserve in Sussex

One of the things I love about visiting Woods Mill is that you can get beautiful images before you’ve even left the car park…

Our lunchtime companion at Woods Mill.

A robin at Woods Mill in Sussex.

Spiked beauty.

A thistle at Woods Mill in Sussex

Easter walk at Woods Mill.

Two younb girls walking at Woods Mill in Sussex.

Half term adventures.

A girl running through a flooded path at Woods Mill.

Cygnet.

A cygnet in the lake at Woods Mill.

Fantastic day out walking with the girls. So tired, but so happy.

The meadow at Woods Mill.

And… breathe.

A path into the woods at Woods Mill.

Look at this cute fellah.

A robin at Woods Mill in Sussex

A buzzard, drifting lazily over the Woods Mill car park.

A common buzzard in flight.

Into the woods.

Two girls at Woods Mill nature reserve.