The church on the hill

I headed off to photography club this morning and found I was a week early, so I ambled home the back way and stopped to take a picture of the church on the hill, surrounded by lovely pine trees.

It was so mild I have been out in the garden raking up leaves from the borders and bagging them up.  I would have chucked them into the parkland with the rest of the leaves but the gate was too swollen to open.

Another of the chestnut trees on the avenue has had to be felled and will have to be replaced.  It's such a shame but they are diseased and we are going to lose them all eventually.