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Another Walk in the Park

Another walk in Farnham Park. As our time here nears to an end, we grow nostalgic an are driven to capture scenes we’ve photographed many times before (see below).

The night the Perseid shower was meant to provide the best seeing here in Southeastern England, we went out to the park around midnight. As we ran out the door, I grabbed a camera with a 55-200mm zoom on it, but no tripod. While the sky was mostly clear and dark, there was a glow on the Eastern horizon which I imagine was from Aldershot. We did see a few brief streaks in the sky and one very bright one. Of course, I didn’t capture any of them but, taking handheld (braced) shots with 4 second exposures at ISO 12,800 I did get some mysterious and eerie night shots of the sky with a handful of blurry stars.

Wildflowers

Another walk along the North Downs Way. There’s always something new to see and we’ve never gone more than about 5 – 10 miles along its 153-mile course, all the way to Dover.

Park

We visited a complex of garden allotments in a large park, that was quite lovely. The weather was much better than in Farnham, too, in the high 20s instead of the teens (high 80s vs low 50s °F).

Waverley Abbey

When we got to the Abbey a guard informed us we couldn’t enter. Instead we walked up to the car park and along the river on the side we’d never been able to get to on previous visits, across a barricaded bridge to Waverley House. So we got some different views before decided we might be straying into trespassing.

Delta Force Reflection

Riverside Park Industrial Estate, Farnham

The Wood

Foggy Morning

Deep fog a couple of weeks ago – continued even as I took the train in to London later that morning (see images below).

Farnham Flooding

This little brook has achieved record heights (but is not overflowing the little footbridge over it).

Three Trees

Ash Ranges

We walked a short trail through the Ash Ranges which were still covered in puddles from the recent rains. Click any of the images below to see them enlarged.

Box of Trees

Every time I see two rows of squared-off trees like this (there are some in the Tuileries in Paris as well) I’m reminded of a painting that’s stuck in my mind as a Magritte. However, even though we were on our way to the Magritte Museum and, despite searching arduously on the Internet multiple times I’ve never been able to locate it so I have no idea what I’m misremembering.