This is an extract from one of my many photo stories, usually loosely held together by a journey from one place to another and added to from time to time.

Winter Chill, Devon

Snow transports familiar places to another world.

 
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Here is a sequence of images from a walk that I do most days. I take my three spaniels and myself down to the sea. We go along an old railway line which leads us to the River Otter, then a tree lined path on a raised bank which ends abruptly at the estuary. 

 
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A leaden sky awaits us and
a snow smothered beach
by an icy sea.


But first the river.

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And then into Santa’s Grotto.

A corridor.

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Towards the sea.

Another transformation. 

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We trudge through a blizzard masking beach, sea and cliffs. Familiar objects melt into shapeless forms. I have to remember where we are to avoid being lost. What a strange, alien place this is.

 
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It’s hard to believe that in a few hours time the sun will shine and this will all be gone.

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Such a contrast.

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I must have dreamt that it once had snowed.