Thursday 20th November - geraniums, stair rods, snow, woodland

 My geraniums (pelargonium really) survived the frost on Monday night, but is was enough of a warning that on Tuesday we arranged all the pots - 20 of them - in shallow trays, as I had arranged with a friend to over-winter them in her conservatory. Tuesday was cold all day, and a neighbour helped BB wrap them in fleece to protect them.

On Wednesday morning, as we were just about to load the car, it started sleeting heavily. Like a rain storm, but a sleet storm, it came down like stair rods. Anyone remember what stair rods were?

Goodness me, you can buy them everywhere! I thought they were a thing of the past!

The sleet gave way to very wet snow, large wet clumps that looked as though they should make a sound midway between SPLAT and THUD when the hit the ground. 

We took the plants round in the afternoon, when everything had changed again; clear, cold bright sun. 

I'm glad we did; my weather app said it felt like -6°C outside and I believe it!

I'm embarking on another virtual journey, this time through a cutesy wood full of sweet little animals. It is themed around Thanksgiving, and I am promised features on traditional recipes and customs from around the world along the way. 

The path on my first day lead me past a happy picnic party.;

 

 Those squirrels are having a lovely time. I didn't think that there were red squirrels in USA; perhaps this is taking place in the English Lake District, or perhaps on Brownsea Island which isn't too far from us. I'll have to ask Kezzie to identify those fungi on the right; they look as though they would glow in the dark.

The next day I came to a bridge;

The blue dot, near the HH marker shows where I got to on Tuesday, and the tartan marker is Wednesday. 

The walk has suddenly grown a little scary; I've been walking at least 2200 steps each day, which means the distance from the blue dot to the tartan marker is OVER ONE MILE. 

So, just how big are those ducks? It's going to take me a couple of days to cross that bridge! I seem to have made it safely past those hedgehogs without being mistaken for a worm; what perils lie ahead, I wonder?

I'm going to count this as my scavenger hunt 'woodland' item.