The promised snow did arrive over night and it was snowing like the clappers when I got up this morning. As I mentioned yesterday I had no choice but to go into work because I was on Business Improvements Delivering Excellence training. So there was nothing for it but to put my best foot [...]
Archive for the tag 'My Oak Tree'
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 13th 2010
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So That Was Christmas
Delays earlier this evening meant I have been in a mad rush to get all the Christmas decorations down. Now I know some of you will say they should have been taken down yesterday but my family has always done them on the 6th (unless they got bored of them earlier). So please [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2010
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A Flurry of Snow
The sky this morning was nowhere near as beautiful as it was yesterday. There was no sunrise but there were a few flakes of snow falling. I was wondering if it would turn into something that would stop me going into work but it didn’t look too promising on that count. So I managed [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2010
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The Sun Rises
I thought I would take advantage of this rather nice sunrise instead of my usual sunset pictures. I think I was really just using delaying tactics on my first day back to work after the Christmas break. My car needed scraping and the door was a bit frozen up causing me to struggle to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2010
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The Old Oak Tree
I am posting these as a special request for Claudia.
I love this majestic oak tree at the bottom of my garden. I always refer to it as ‘My Oak Tree’ but it is actually in the garden behind. The branches hang over the bottom of my garden and it always deposits plenty of [...]
23 Comments CherryPie on Dec 7th 2009
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Autumn is in the Air
Yesterday I distinctly felt autumn in the air. On closer examination I noticed that leaves on the trees are just starting to turn to those beautifully rich autumn shades and the shrubs are bearing berries.
Autumn seems to have arrived earlier than usual and just one other thing. What happened to summer?
21 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2009
