A pictorial diary of my walks around the parks and wild areas of Leicestershire, and occasionally farther afield.

If you're new to my blog, you might like to have a look at the pictures in the older post as well (click on button at the bottom of the page).

I am also a writer, using the pen-name John Gwynant, and I'll occasionally announce my latest book release on the blog.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Seasons Greetings

We started with frosts turning everything white.


Snow soon followed


If we were clever we had laid in the fuel, ready for the cold weather.


The birds puffed themselves up to keep out the cold


And what other bird suited the season but a Robin


Well a Jenny Wren of course (Ok that surprised me as well)


So we trimmed up for the great day and the dog got in on the act as well


Turkey eaten presents opened and it was time for a bit of fun


We all remember Mid Winter Festivals like that, don't we?
We perhaps wish they still happened?
Well the good news is these pictures were all taken within the last four years so they do still happen and will happen again.

Have a Happy Mid-Winter Day and Good new Year.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

My latest Book release 13 Dec 2014

I'm still having trouble finding wildlife to photograph, I cant believe that a couple of years ago I was taking over a hundred pictures nearly every day. Yet today I haven't taken the camera out of its case for two weeks. there's nothing but a few mallards and coots, swans and canada geese.

I don't like being inactive though so here is my latest book, it is a sequel to "Excalibur's last battle."
and is available on Amazon as paperback or ebook, under my pen name "John Gwynant"