Let's pretend it's Monday

The weekend weather was wonderful.  Cold but gloriously sunny.  Maybe it was autumn's last gasp - snow is forecast for this coming weekend.  We wrapped up warm and went to the common.

On the way there we saw an unexpected sight.

It's an awful photo I know - blame the borrowed camera.  If you zoom in on the centre, you'll see a man on a horse.  One of those lovely big horses with the long hair round their hooves - the kind that used to pull carts ladden with barrels of beer.  Not what you normally see in Clapham.

The pond was frozen.  Poor birds.  Lucky we'd brought them some bread.

Even though it was the afternoon there was still some frost on the ground.

They don't call it the season of mists (and mellow fruitfulness) for nothing.

Comments

[caroline]

Lovely, lovely photos, Mary. Thanks!
Hope your ankle's feeling better.

[dawn]

gorgeous photos Mary. I take it that your ankle is better! I love this season, and all of the autumnal colours (though it's late this year, isn't it?). It makes me want to knit with russets and reds!

Dawn:)

[patti]

wow- how pretty! Glad you brought bread for the ducks- we feed ours bread every time we run out of corn for them!
Happy Thanksgiving!!

[Tracy]

Poor ducks! I quite like this crispy coldness and it looks very pretty all frosty out there. Good reason to wrap up in lots of handknitted fluffiness.

[erin]

Snow in London? Thanks for sharing the lovely photos, London has a special place in my heart. The man on the horse looks so mysterious.

[Iris]

What lovely photographs. They really capture the strange quality of the light on a cold winter's day.

[Aimee]

Mary, what beautiful photo's. And, snow in London...Kristine may not agree, but if it snows while we are there for Christmas that would be divine. See you very soon!

[Carol]

Lovely photos - they make me feel quite homesick (in the best possible way). I used to love those misty, wintery cold days.