For Christmas this year I decided I would actually spend a proper amount of time in the county of my birth, Buckinghamshire. As the years go by it gets more and more difficult to wrangle together all the old friends one would like, but luckily my family are still easy to locate! Most of this set of photos are from a stroll taken in the indeterminate gap between Christmas and New Year, with a cameo appearance from a walk to a pub designed to lure my old scouting friends out of the woodwork.
The walk took place about 10 minutes drive from the family home, on an afternoon blessed with the most magical of winter weather types, bright sunshine! I love cold, blue-sky winter days. The sun in the UK is even lower to the horizon than in Austria, meaning that the time of slanting, yellow sun is extended for most of the afternoon, painting the landscape and the sky in warm colours. In the shadows the grass retains an almost bluish green, sometimes dusted with a thin layer of frost, and as the afternoon wears on, hints of purple become more prominent in the clouds. One benefit of hanging out in the chilterns so rarely is that now when I return I can appreciate the details of the landscape, rahter than treating it as a default and unremarkable backdrop!
As it was a very short walk, there's a lot more photos than I have words to waffle about it, so do please click through to the gallery! And for the very small number of people who aren't family and read this blog, here's a link to the location in the Chilterns, the small hamlet of Great Hampden.
bis bald,
der Tom
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