Wimpole Hall Winter Lights

I've visited Wimpole Hall many times over the years - it's just up the road from me. I've never got around to visiting its winter light show, however. See my post on Longstowe Hall and Gardens for other things I've not previously done because they are so close to home.

This year has been a time of doing things I've been meaning to do for a long time, but have never got around to. December was the month for visiting Wimpole Hall's winter lights. 

There follows some of the many, many photographs I took on my camera and on my phone as I wandered its muddy but wonderfully illuminated trails. Photographic quality is variable, but the lights were entirely magical.

White December

This is likely to be my last post until the New Year, so it seemed timely to share some seasonal, snowy winter scenes.

We are cold and white in this part of Britain, and though the snow has thawed a little since first fall, it's still pretty deep and expansive, as you can see for yourself.

It's definitely winter here, though the barbed wire does look like it's flowering.

"snow becomes diamond/ glittering with fresh life" from Life Magic by J.S.Watts

Constitutional Highlights - December, the Last Half

 

Thanks to Blogger, December and 2020 are going out backwards. It's apposite, I guess. So, beginning with the end of the month and working its way forward to 14th December, here is the second half of the twelfth month of 2020 in all its variegations: sunshine, cloud and mist, mild and bitter. There are even signs of spring.

My walking buddy gets a look in and there are dogs and birds, as well as South Cambridgeshire landscapes. There is lots of water: the Rhee is high and we have had a down pouring of rain again and again and again. I've resisted photographing too many puddles and the mud that accompanies them.