Rays of Hope

A brisk walk on a cold and sunny day around the open space of Battlefield a.k.a. City Stadium, almost certainly for the last time this year amid feelings of relief that many possibly bad outcomes for this patch of urban green space have been held at bay (for now ...) and my own disbelief at the transformation of a shabby and perhaps doomed to be short lived greening initiative last century has produced this increasingly mature habitat! I turn in from the busy streets of speeding traffic and here all around me is a woodland! The spans of a great piece of 19th century engineering, beautifully crafted are framed by soaring trees against the sweep of a winter sky. Birds flit between the branches and the track is strewn with fallen leaves and berries, braced for winter and waiting for spring.

As 'they' say, the best things in life are free.

Photographic slideshow here (off site link)

All good wishes and a happy New Year