Beautiful day

It has been a lovely day...warm and sunny, and the clocks went forward this morning, so everyone got up late. And I decided to go for a walk. Breathing is good.

So I walked to the edge of the village and down the lane to those lakes you can see here....

And I made a new friend along the way. He was looking in my pockets for a carrot, but I didn't have any.... so I stroked his nose, and he seemed to like that....

The grass or whatever is growing in the field is very green....

More friends..... the mill cottage has a water sluice and this beautiful swan was playing against the current......

Just look at the reflection of the water in itself.....

The water in the lakes is higher than normal. Some of the trees are in the lake at the moment.....

Soon they will all be green. There are leaf buds everywhere, so I will have to go back soon and take more photos......

Such strange shapes. The trees bend towards the water in really weird ways....

And there are so many swans. I watched them take off from the water and come in to land. Unfortunately I got lovely photos of half swans. The sun was too bright to see what I was taking!

And this reminded me of Moses in the bullrushes. The reed are high and grasses sway gently in the breeze.

I walked slowly and stopped to rest a lot. So much to see and it is all so English and green and quiet. Lots of time to think and just to "be".