Jack frost

We where greeted by a clear sky and lots of sun this morning, unfortunately there had been a keen frost, and the car was rock hard and needed quite a bit of scraping to get rid of the frost. having removed the frost the car started OK, in contrast to yesterday when it didn't, and by the end of the day I had shelled out nearly 70 quid for a new battery. And now the battery warning light is staying on, which looks like the alternator might be ca put, more expense. now this is telling me the alternator was probably the fault in the first place, you can tell I'm no mechanic !!.
          Anyway off we went for our morning walk round the patch, and not a lot knocking about.

What I'm finding amazing this year is how much the trees are hanging on to their leaves, just look at this Ash, and again no sign of Ash die-back

Again the subject was mainly the frost on various seed heads, this is grass seed.

This may be Ground Elder

 

Frost crystals on a fence post

Misty having a good sniff around

This another view of the new reserve, which has been holding large numbers of snipe.

And another view , this time showing the big hedge, which has turned up some good sightings over the years, at this time of year we start to get the thrushes and Bramblings feeding on the berries and apples.

The Westies back in the car after their walk, Kyfer has his eyes closed as if he is just soaking up the warm sun.

And a few pics of Blencathera from flusco, I don't think I have ever seen a mix of snow and Autumn Colours, but that's what we have this year.

 

It reminds me of the cloud plum that comes off Everest.