Toys Hill, December

Ide Hill from the bottom of Scords Wood, December 2015.

Another walk around Toys Hill and Scords Wood, this time in December.  It was a beautiful sunny morning and this was the view from the bottom of the hillside.  English countryside with rolling hills, fields and woods.  It's almost the same outlook as the misty view in this post from Scords Wood in March 2012.  This shot with my EOS 5DS and 100mm lens collapses the distance and makes everything sharper, allowing for some slight haze still present in the air.  This looks like a lovely walk, and if my car had not been at  the top of the hill behind me I would have tried it!

A viewpoint is being cleared higher up Toys Hill, but there are still many young birches in the way, and it looks as though would be better in the afternoon, with the sun behind.

Viewpoint being re-cleared on Toys Hill, December 2015.

This time I also took a reflective and non-misty shot of the pond at the bottom, part of the waterworks that supplies the neighbouring Emmets Garden.

Toys Hill pond, December 2015

The sign just visible in the far corner explains how it works.

Sign explaining hydraulic ram pump, Toys Hill, December 2015.

The people who prepared this sign must have been at the front of the queue when the apostrophes and commas were handed out.  From the credit line, it also looks as though they had a couple of spare fonts.

The woods are wet and green, with bluebell leaves poking through the moss.  I came back with only one botanical photo:

Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage, Chrysoplenium oppositifolium.  Toys Hill, 23 December 2015.

Some Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage, in early bud and looking very healthy,  near the hut below the pond that houses the pulse valve.