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Health Walk

Tuesday 28th February - Today was our weekly Tuesday walk from the Sports Centre led by Gareth.
We set off in light drizzle, walking across the car park with the two Elizabeths in the lead. They were busy talking and turned onto the path to the left as we entered the Park.

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As we reached the lowest part of the walk through Green Wood we cam across the volunteers working away tidying up the clearing.  These particular volunteers work on a Tuesday, that's why they are still here as they only work on this section on Tuesdays.
The exposed saw cuts are a delightful colour, which I find hard to capture with the camera. I've 'fiddled' with photo 1 to try and reproduce the correct hue but it's not quite right.  I've ben walking down this path for over a year now, not every day, and I've never noticed the what look like greenhouses in the background.

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Photos 4 & 5 are not very good but I've included them for a reason. 
I only took five photos today, the weather didn't produce any inspiration.  Has the heron moved since last week?  There are still plenty of Canada Geese around, not just on the Lake - there were a large number in the meadow to the right of the cycle track where we emerged from the wood, for which I have no name, the furthest outward point of our walk today.  We only saw one Grebe but it was hanging around near where they nested two or three years ago.

I've not detailed the route we took this week, I'll let you work out where we've been yourselves from the map.

I watched a programme last night with Andrew Marr and David Hockney, it was titled 'the Art of Seeing'.  I'm not a fan of David Hockney's paintings but he is a very interesting man to listen too.  Amongst many things he said the camera can never catch what you really see - photos 1 & 2 illustrate this perfectly, the colours I saw are not in the photo and some earlier pictures also don't reflect the lovely autumn colours still left in the leaves on the ground.  Another point is that if you don't look carefully you don't see anything.  As we looked at the water today it looked dark and greyly brown but if you look at the water in photos 4 & 5 there are many colours.  A contradiction, the camera has caught what I didn't see, I certainly need to look hard to really see what is there.