The Sense of Marcescence

A cloudy day. Milder, but that just means the temperature is above zero. The forecast has sunny spells, but all that occurred was one patch of brightness, which moved swiftly eastward during the morning walk. Gone is the hard soil. Everything feel so mushy beneath the feet. Walking through a small wood, this small tree stands out with its copper leaves.

In the afternoon, a walk to a garden centre to get coffee and coke, and perhaps some Christmas shopping. The path is very mushy in places, but we can head on to a secondary path through the woods. We follow a path around the fields, which is also mushy in places. By the time we gat to the garden centre, we have a significant layer of mud on our shoes. Managed to get most of it off before entering. We have coffee first and then do a wee bit of Christmas shopping, some nice presents for wee ones. The home on the bus.