We've had some glorious days this January, an uplifting start to the year to see the winter blue skies and the sun shining. Sometimes we forget about places that are near to us and right under our noses and take them for granted. Places like our local parks and nearby footpaths. Having a dog has set me off exploring places locally again. On Saturday the weather was glorious and we decided to go for an afternoon walk with Ted around Fairlands Valley Park in Stevenage. It's a place quite near to us and when our girls were small we used to live in Stevenage, so we had many enjoyable and memorable visits to this park while they were growing up.
On a day like Saturday everywhere looked stunning - the sky a deep blue; trees reaching high and looking stark in the sunlight; the lake echoing the colours of the sky, clouds and trees and teaming with wildlife and late afternoon sun touching the grasses and redwoods with its golden glow.
We spotted comorants - two were resting high in a tree, herons, grebes, moorhens, swans, geese and ducks and Ted was over excited when he spotted a squirrel or two! Yes, even the squirrels popped out of hibernation for a while on this beautiful day.
A wander along the side of the lake and the sun suddenly dipped and gave us yet another one of those glorious January sunsets we've been having. A perfect pleasure just lingering to watch as dipped lower and lower and looked as though it was dropping from the sky.
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