Discovering little things at Coombe Wood (Tuesday walk)

A lovely sunny but chilly morning with clear blue sky. I arrived a bit early and went for a walk before meeting Amy, my daughter's mother-in-law. We are Granny and Grandma to three gorgeous children. We had a walk together followed by a lovely meal in the Coach House Cafe. 

Clear reflections.

Mahonia flowers - fairly insignificant from a distance

but it's worth a closer look at the tiny flowers - getting close enough to enjoy the scent.

Blue sky

Another plant that has flowers that look insignificant from the distance

I'm fascinated by the crazy flowers close up

More tiny flowers - like bits of fluff on bare stems

Looking closer at the little white flowers you can catch the sweet scent

A mossy landscape on a branch. 

Another little miniature world up a tree. 

 

Snowdrops in the sun - signs of hope. 

More really tiny flowers - most are buds at the moment but one pure white bell on the left has opened.

 Camellia

A leaf on the ground looked transparent. 

Grasses blowing in the breeze. 

Seed heads.

A seed head pattern after most of the seeds have dropped off.

From a distance this plant looked pink - close up some of the leaves were red.

I saw a robin flit across in front of us. Amy saw where it landed on the magnolia and pointed it out to me.

It was quite a small and bedraggled looking robin with its feathers fluffed out and it wasn't much more than an arm's length away

Then a little further over another bigger robin landed on a branch. Again Amy saw it first and pointed it out to me. We stood and watched the two robins for quite a while.

 A nest up the magnolia tree. 

Tiny pink waxy flowers. 

Another miniature world - sunlit moss.

Tiny orange flowers.

 Apart from the big pink camellia all the flowers today were tiny.  

This lamp in the Coach House Cafe attracts my attention.

Thank you very much for joining me.