Adel in the snow and Redwing highlight.

(To get the best out of these photos you need to look on a laptop or desktop and click to enlarge them or at least an i pad).

After a day of snow, resulting in 6 inches here and gridlock in Leeds, we had a beautiful sunny day, perfect for a walk. A little wary with my recovering ankle, that’s still very tender in certain positions, I went carefully but with snow underfoot it made it soft, so as long as I didn’t slip, I would be fine. AND I did manage to stay on my feet. A great pair of walking boots really helps. https://www.meindl.co.uk/products/womens/womens-boots/

This is the lane behind our house looking very pretty.

Digital photography is brilliant you can snap away and get rid as you wish. Gone are the days when you had to get the right roll of film in your camera, either 12x, 24,or 36x photos, then send them off by post, for development and wait with excitement, to have them returned and find that half of them are over exposed or with a thumb in the way or someones head chopped off!

And guess where I ended up again? Yes St johns Adel. It is just so picturesque.

And I found a few more interesting graves.

The first gravestone shows John Walker who died in 1822 only aged 39, his son died the year after at the age 15 and then his daughter died the same year aged just 3. Wish I’d moved the snow to see when his wife died – the poor woman.

Next Mark Shaw of Horsforth died in1 1839 aged 26. A number of the graves give information of where the occupant lived too.

Richard Atkinson of Cookridge died in 1782 aged 59. This is an older grave that I don’t think Ive found before. His son died in 1799 at only 25 years.

The last one is another old one. Fanny died in 1757 at the tender age of 13. Then her sister in 1766 at an even more tender age of 11. The brother only reached the age of 26, dying in 1775. Their mother reached the ripe old age of 72, dying in 1789 and their father reached 70 years dying in 1797.

I just find the history here fascinating and very sad and am going to delve deeper and try to find out more about these lives.

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I walked on down to Bedquilts Recreation Ground and got a few nice photos. Its a strange name and I haven’t found out why it is so called. Its a large area with football pitches, grass and nice mature trees. A lot of people exercise their dogs there. The snow was deep and gave my ankle and legs a work out.

Just on the last leg of my walk not far from home I was surprised to see a single Redwing bird on a hedgerow. Ive not managed to get a really good photo of a redwing and it let me get really close to it. It was the highlight of my walk.

They are beautiful thrush like bird with the red colour under the wings giving them their name. The come from Scandinavia in winter.