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.
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.
A leaden sky awaits us and
a snow smothered beach
by an icy sea.
But first the river.
And then into Santa’s Grotto.
A corridor.
Towards the sea.
Another transformation.
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.
It’s hard to believe that in a few hours time the sun will shine and this will all be gone.
Such a contrast.
I must have dreamt that it once had snowed.