It has continued to rain more than usual and the ground is now saturated, with water trickling from the banks each side of the road, forming shallow streams and gathering volume till it reaches ditches and rhynes which are currently overflowing onto the levels.
Yesterday we went for our customary walk and it would have been damaging to the land to walk along the path that cuts through this field to get up closer to the wonder old oak tree. I had taken this picture on the 6th of November the day I posted about the old Ash Tree. Yesterday it was still holding its leaves through the colours were more autumnal. I shall try to get a picture again in a few days time. The sheep have been moved higher up the slope.
This wonderful old open grown English Oak is the first tree on our circular walk that always draws me to stop to admire it and the view beyond, Less than five minutes walk from the house it stands in a corner of a field, and from this side of the hedge and back along the outer left hand hedge is a bank of beautiful wild flowers in the spring. Sadly the tree just this side of the large oak is now just a standing dead tree, hopefully it will be left there to form a habitat of beetles and other insects.
I ought to have made this the first of the trees in my Tree Appreciation series, as it was the first tree I appreciated the evening we moved to our new home a number of years ago.
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