I can’t believe that I have been volunteering at Attingham Park for a year. My first post shift walk (after a taster session) was on February 8th 2024 to see the snowdrops.
You can view the post here.
I haven’t walked after my shifts for a couple of months due to the lighting levels for driving home. I don’t like driving along a dark busy road with oncoming dazzling headlights.
I love it when the evenings get lighter with increasing speed in January and into February. Today, the 11th February it was light enough for my first post shift walk of the year.
One year on from the beginning of my volunteering journey I enjoyed another post shift walk through the snowdrops and walled garden.
Trees with leaves, flowers and green branches may suffer in winter, but they are much more attractive to birds, bugs and visitors than bare brown branches. Or maybe I am thinking of Australia where most native trees are evergreen.
We have a mixture of deciduous and evergreen in the UK. New growth starts emerging in late winter and everthing comes to life in spring
A well-earned reward for your volunteering, Cherie. I know what you mean about driving in the dark
I love that is light enough and the park is open longer so that I can go for a walk after volunteering.
Your first year there seems to have passed so quickly. The snowdrops look beautiful and I too don’t like driving in the dark these days.
It has gone by quickly. The volunteers I work alongside and the permanent staff were surprised when I told them it was my volunteering anniversary.
Time flies, indeed. Congratulations!
Thank you
Well done on volunteering for a year. That is quite a milestone. Please say snowdrops mean spring is coming!
Thank you. I feel that spring is in the air but winter is reluctant to let go…
Luckily I saw some of them before I left London in early January.
Saw some really cool plants and birds in New Zealand too.
But the heat there was so unbearable, I am really a winter person.
But maybe you would enjoy the heat there.
Although I love the warmth of summer I am not a fan of excessive heat.