Welly Walk

As far as being a welly walk that was a huge disappointment. Very little water was to be found. Considering our village had reverted to being an island once more by yesterday evening I expected to put my wellington boots to good use.

Yesterday afternoon Penenlope Sunshine struggled to get us through the lake like puddles on our journey home and I did think we would be parking her at the nearest houses and asking our son to come and get us in his big truck.  But she got us through, slow and steady on our third choice of route and we made it home.

I had already decided that my thigh strain would mean I could not do my planned Taunton 10K route this weekend and that I would walk the route and take some photos instead. I was delighted when I got up this morning to discover that we were in for a sunny Sunday and my 2 hr trek was a treat. I took my long lens and found gates and tress to lean on in my attempt to get an in focus long range shot. I tried to capture some birds in the lofty heights of trees but mostly managed to shoot beautiful blue sky and branches.

This was my first outing with my new Christmas present polarizing filter and carrying both lenses. I got myself in quite a pickle changing lenses, back lens covers, front lens caps and filters, it's not easy with only 2 hands and coat pockets with holes in the linings!

47 pictures taken and nothing special to share but I will leave you with this photograph of the biggest puddle I came across.