Scenes from a Lakeside Walk

We finally managed to get out of the house yesterday morning to take a walk by the lakeside at Trentham.

The morning was cool, overcast and slightly misty - just right for taking photographs!

The rhododendrons on the heronry island looked lovely against the water.

The beautiful flag iris were blooming all around the lakeside.

We spent ages strolling and gazing at the views glad to be out and about and feeling a bit better.

We walked all round the lake stopping for coffee at the Lakeside cafe on the way.

Then we walked around the gardens which had burst into life since our last visit.

Lovely planting showing different colours and textures.

Abandoned deck chairs

Gorgeous trees

and pretty flowers!

Back home to work in the garden until late afternoon when, just as we were about to cook something to eat, we had a power cut which affected the whole of our area and the villages out to the east and south of us and lasted until about 8 o'clock so it wasn't until about 10p.m. that we heard the awful news from Cumbria - my thoughts are with all those affected today.

In the News

Teresa, over at Blueberries, Art and Life has mentioned my blog, along with others, in an interesting article entitled 'The Traveling Front Porch' in her monthly column for her local newspaper. Thanks Teresa! She has used my post of 18th September - A Walk at Baslow - to illustrate how she can travel the world through reading other people's blogs and how by leaving comments and communicating with each other, we have set up a social network of friends and neighbours similar to those we have who pop by to pass the time of day in our own neighbourhood. The article also describes, for those who may not know, what a blog is and what it is like to be part of the blogging commuity. So, why not pop along to Teresa's blog to have a read, I'm sure you will enjoy the article and the rest of her lovely blog too.

Meanwhile, summer really is at an end now after that last glorious day on Saturday. This morning is cold, wet and windy and more of the same forecast for the rest of the week. So I'm getting ready to say farewell to September.......

and hello to October.......

....the month, we hope, of crisp autumnal mornings and brisk walks in the cooling sun. Of warming, wholesome foods full of flavour, rich colourful hedgerows with the smell of woodsmoke in the air and fallen russet coloured leaves crunching under foot. I've sorted out my jumpers, gloves, scarves and warmer coats to be ready so I hope I will need them and not my raincoat and umbrella!

The cats have already started to seek warmth and solace within the house, and the saying that goes something like 'if you want the comfortablest seat in the house, you'll have to move the cat' is so true!