That's was November, that was.
- Location: Almost entirely Oxford
- Gardens Tended: 2 (Oxford and Surrey - total of 5 gardening days)
- Photographs Taken: Dozens (mostly trees)
- Online Meetings attended: None
I didn't really enjoy November. I've not much liked LockDown 2. It's mix of we've been here before, alongside the expectation that we'll be here again early in the New Year - combined with the perception that an awful lot of people seem to be treating LockDown as a negotiating position (not helped by the sometimes contradictory slew of 'rules' and 'advice' offered by both the Scottish and UK governments). I'm pretty sure that the definition of 'essential' has never before been quite so flexible.
The shortened days have also been a challenge. Getting outside is always easier when there is either lots of sunshine (and daylight around) or better yet combined with a coastline within reach. Oxfordshire offered neither in November.
It did however offer plenty of woodland within easy reach - and I did manage a woodland walk almost every day (except when I gave myself a day off by spending the day in the garden) - and as well as clocking up another 100 walking miles, I've also clocked up another 30 pictures of the day (I did wonder about rebranding this to tree-of-the-day or wood-of-the-day on a couple of occasions).
A significant number of the pictures of the day were taken in the C S Lewis Nature Reserve and the almost adjacent Shotover Country Park - for the purpose of this LockDown at least, I'm considering these two areas to be my 'local patch'.
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Bury Knowle Park
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Green Lane, Shotover
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Shotover Country Park
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Shotover Country Park
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Shotover Plain
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Bury Knowle Park
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