Walk round The Lee

Quite a busy weekend, but Helen and I needed to get out into the fresh air. Saturday had been spent at John Lewis trying to spend some of our wedding gifts, on a new sofa (and television!), then Abida a Connie came round for something to eat before we went to see Chris Packham.
We started off at the church just off the village green at The Lee, the weather was bright, with blue skies and blue cumulus clouds. The perfect opportunity to try out my newly purchased filter holder for the LX3, I could feel the polarising filter was needed. We crossed the green and headed down a track that leads to the edge of the common via some woods. We passed a group of barn buildings called the Old Garage I wander what they looked like in days gone by. We walked through the woods parallel to the common until we reached Ballinger Bottom where we crossed the road.
There were loads of mushrooms about but it took a while to get our eyes in! We walked on until the field on the left became woodland then we took a left through the woods, along what looked like a really ancient path way, the trees either side of the path looked very old and gnarled.
We were about half round at this point so we looked out for a suitable path leading left back towards The Lee. Once followed we found ourselves out in the open again, strange though there was a very wide (25m) avenue of grass that ran the length of the field right to the edge of the village. The habitat for mushrooms was very different so we saw quite a few different species from those in the woods. One in particular was giant, about 10 inches across and a foot high, looked like a parasol, perhaps that is what it is called.
Once back at the village we turned off the road and across the allotments and back onto the common where I took a picture of the cute house that Steve’s parents live in. We rejoined the path we took on the way out and eventually crossed back across the green. There was a tree with really tasty red apples in it, I was a bit surprised toi be asked by a group of people whether they were edible of not.
That was a great walk, another time we might extend it a little and find time to visit the pub on the green called the Cock and Rabbit. They serve Italian grub.

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