I find in winter that I think of my garden in a series of glimpses. Most of the time we’re indoors at home, just glancing at the landscape outside the windows, but preferring to warm ourselves in front of the fire. Sunrises come and go with the frost. Most seeds are sleeping under the soil waiting for the spring. But if I look there is much life and colour. Crocuses and hellebores flowering in sheltered corners. A fox hunting. Wild birds moving from hedgerow to feeder and back. And when I walk from car to door and door to car sometimes the winter wind brings with it the sweet fragrance of the Daphne and honeysuckle blooms. 
The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature; Addresses and Lectures (1849)
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Glimpses is exactly the right word. 🙂
Gorgeous photos as always. xx
Hi Kriss, I love the image you paint with words and pictures. Winter is just as beautiful as summer, if not more so. I love the words quoted from of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a very wise man indeed!
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you live in such a beautiful and peaceful place Kriss. beautiful shots
So beautiful, such amazing pictures. I think I love every season but in winter it’s details like you say in the glimpses. Love the fox going about his business.
I totally agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson and love the countryside on every day of the year. (although it does help when it’s sunny!!)
Fab post Kriss. Definitely seeing the glimpses here – and the promise, it’s teasing us and giving us hope isn’t it, Mother Nature? Thank goodness for that 🙂
lovely set of photos, i love the blueness of the sky
These photos Kriss, so good. They make me want to get up early and head out to explore. I love following country life by you on here and IG xx
Your capture such lovely photos of wildlife Kriss. My boyfriend is always the one who spots wildlife; I’m either talking or have my nose buried in the camera 🙂 Seeds sleeping under the soil – I like that idea.
So beautifully put and stunning photographs. I know just what you mean, and at the moment when I look out there, I see glimpses of life, of spring wanting to blossom. I’m so looking forward to it.
There’s beauty outdoors when you look – and thank you Jocelyn.