Harrold-Odell Country Park on a cold December afternoon.
The second, more distant, stretch of water is from a very high River Ouse which has flooded the water meadows. It serves to show the rashness of being tempted to build on a flood plain, thankfully not done along the Ouse Valley. A few miles away in Northampton the severe floods in 1998, in which 2 people died and 4500 homes were evacuated, were partly the result of too much concrete in places where it shouldn't have been.

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A simple and fairly mundane sight transformed by winter sun and ever-changing light from interesting cloud patterns.
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are from the same afternoon.

#31 - Diagonal lines - 52 in 2018 Challenge
& HFF! too

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My final early morning wander around Harrold-Odell Country Park before we moved from Bedfordshire to Northumberland started off with lakes covered by swirling, slowly rising mist. As the minutes ticked by the sun started to bring some colour to the scene, initially an eerie sepia before it burnt off the rest to reveal the full spectrum of colours.

Final visit 1, 7:15am flic.kr/p/2pxsXat
Final visit 2, 7:22am flic.kr/p/2pxNiYD

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There's only a little-used fisherman's path on the south side of the river Ouse between Harrold and Odell so it was virgin snow the whole way. Mostly it was just a few inches deep which was no bother since I was wearing gaiters and Yaktrax.
However a stretch of the bank slopes steeply down to the river and the snow had formed deep drifts every now and again, mostly about knee deep but with one or two rather deeper. which was interesting as they couldn't be avoided because of all the bushes and trees. I loved it!

But today the thaw has begun in earnest....

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.........you have to walk the dog (or was it a massive Ginger Tom?!).

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