Winter is coming..

Hi Everyone,

As the time passed on, the weather become colder (no surprise here..), but with that, our little trips are become less and less frequent. Mostly just around the town, or to the sea.. 

After we managed to get all the necessary papers for Maxim (took us a month), our life adapted some sort of routine, grew into a less chaotic, calmer and more peaceful. We finally settled down here (for a while).

I saw a quote from GOT on a toilet door: 'Brace yourself, winter is coming.' and a comment: 'It has never really gone..' and I thought whoever wrote that comment was absolutely right.. In my memory, from September to May the weather was always cold and rainy, but it seems this year the weather changed its mind and turned into a very warm autumn (the credit goes to that 2 hurricanes what brought warm, dry air from desert) and a relatively warm winter (so far).

But before winter, we visited a couple of places :D

There is a woodland near Persley Walled Garden, (upper stream of river Don) which leads back to Seaton Park if you follow the river. It is a nice and easy walk, but do not come here after rain..

There is a sidewalk near the bridge which leads you to a hiking trail. This is how the bridge looks like. The river is wide and calm..

.. until this point.

Dirt road guides you through the woods. I don't know what  happens here, but I rarely meet any people in places like this.. Maybe the people here don't like to go to explore the nature of this city..
I hope that some of you who are here, and haven't been in these places yet, get the taste of these and visit them.

A lonely bench here, providing excellent view to the river and flora around it.

Signpost guarantees you won't get lost :P

We don't know what it is. It looked abandoned, but the lawn was cut around it, so it should be maintained for a reason..

We crossed some weird places like this one.. and to be honest i wouldn't dare coming here alone.

A lovely footbridge, unfortunately closed down. :(

From this point forward the dirt road turned into a modern concrete-wood road.

The Donside Hydro.

Still under construction.. it promises to create clean, renewable electricity.

more information: https://vimeo.com/178159832

Following the trail leads back to Seaton Park.

This is already the Park.

Aaand yes, that is a deer. It has a mate for sure, maybe offspring too.

We used to see them (the 2 bigger ones) on the way from lidl through Seaton Park around dusk. Even saw a fox for a couple of time, tho it was far to take a normal picture of it, and on the other times it was too dark to take any pictures.