We got ourselves sorted after a late Sunday breakfast and went for a walk despite drizzly misty conditions. Everybody was in a reasonably good mood for once and we had a grand time of it. Conditions weren’t the best for photography but I managed a few shots anyway.

The harsh weather of the past few has passed and it is now a lot milder even if it is a bit wet. This is kind of the pattern at this time of year – you can be either cold and dry or warm and wet.

The place looks quite bare at the moment but the moss is doing very well. This part of the forest looks entirely unmanaged and it is hard to see why it isn’t organised in a more productive manner. Still, it is a nice place to walk since it is so wild.

The moss always looks brilliant at a macro scale. The spore things are called devil’s matchsticks due to the fact that they develop a bright red tip for a few days of the year. Last year I managed to get a shot of them on one walk.

81.5km