THIS YEAR ... LAST YEAR.

It's been another day of looking back to this time last year and here is an old favourite ...

The post "Limbering Down" has been a favourite amongst blog viewers, though I pity those that maybe google "limbering down" thinking perhaps they may find some info on such exercise as Pilates and all they find is a rather handsome Welsh Mountain ram!
Now this year I've gone on about the lack of berries on all sorts of trees like hawthorn.
well as you will see in the next photo from last years file, just a year has passed, but ...

just look at these wonderfully ripe red fruits on a hawthorn bush not far from this gate ...

or, more accurately, an old gate recycled as part of a fence between field and road.

Today, started sunny, bright ... yes even dry! How that situation changed this afternoon.

So. in looking back a year ago and given the fact that this is now mid November ...

it seems that the 23rd November 2011 was also a very mixed weather day.

Bands of heavy cloud seemed to linger on the horizon, heavy with the rain that was soon due in over where we live and if, I remember correctly that afternoon the rain came in hard and fast as I headed for home.

Strangely enough the very same happened today, what seemed a lovely sunny morning soon turned to grey, fast moving clouds that all too soon had the landscape running with a heavy fall of rainwater. But ... there was one bright splash of colour last year, that I know is not flowering so profusely this year, in fact I've seen very few blossoms throughout all the last months and I have missed the bright colour of this normally heavy headed fuscia.

But, no doubt whatever the weather, the rams will be making the most of this once in a year chance to ensure that their genes carry on into the next generation. meanwhile Dafad here is in a state of semi hibernation as the last stages of the dratted pneumonia clear.