Beginning of December

Last weekend I helped Bruce with a shoot at Natural With Horses. Natasha is a qualified horse whisperer, passionate about natural communication and therapeutic healing. Her two horses Jack and Pepper were delightfully curious about the 10x8" camera - and as you can see, very happy to pose! The paddock is left as natural as possible, and from what I have seen, the photographs are going to look gorgeous!
It also happened to be next to the Spa Valley Railway, so we had several turns of the steam train too! It was a really lovely morning.

Animal lovers will appreciate the Nativity at St Pauls Tunbridge Wells (obviously it's too early in the month for anyone else to be at the stable!) There's some beautiful stained glass in this church too, Kent is lucky to have several churches with windows by Edward Burne-Jones - I'll take some proper photos soon!

Back at home, the evergreens were brought in as soon as frost hit the ground, I couldn't wait to get started this year! My room is very limited on space, so my tree is rather mini (it's two fallen branches from the nature reserve), but it's certainly very cosy! I also managed to make the wreath, Mollie is obviously very impressed at the efforts!

I'll save the 'Winter Garden' photographs for the next post! The change in weather is certainly startling, brrr!

Hope you've had a good weekend, have you written your christmas food list yet? I'm just about to start!

Katie

Weekend in Kent

I'm lucky that i get to escape work at the weekends and head to Kent instead! This weekend, Bruce and I managed to get out in the sunshine and visit Coldrum Long Barrow, the best preserved of Kent's megalithic tombs. Bruce's Grandad first visited this site around 50 years ago, and it seems it's changed a lot even since then, he is particularly interested in the ley-lines that appear to connect the stones to several churches in the area. We had a fantastic walk up to the stones, past a very nice church, horse paddocks and then these stunning rapeseed fields, very picturesque indeed!

 

At the turn of the century there was still a medial stone in the burial chamber, and the site has been excavated many times, one excavation producing the bones of 20+ individuals of varying ages and both sexes. Nowadays Coldrum is still used as a place for meditation and quiet thought, and the solstices and equinoxes are celebrated here. The overhanging tree was full of ribbons, corn dollies, and other little gifts from visitors.

Bruce always attracts attention by using the 10x8, the usual 'hilarious' remarks of "That's nice and compact" are always popular, yawwwwwn! Sorry, but I don't have as much patience as he does with these things! Either admit you don't know what it is and be interested to learn, or don't make silly remarks! Sorry again, I'm a grump. He doesn't mind the attention really! ;)

 We also headed to some beautiful bluebell woods, glad to see this latest monsoon weather hadn't washed them all away! This is definitely my favourite aspect of spring, very special ideed.

Nice to see 'Blighty looking so bloomin' gorgeous eh? :) As ever, thanks for popping by!

Katie