Oh indeed thank God it's Friday! It's been an over full week so I embrace the 'rest' heartily.  Some prospect of snow maybe for sure..the forecasters' duality would be funny if it wasn't so familiar.  Either way I hope there is good light tomorrow.  Especially as I will have a friend with me who is very keen to take up photography.  She is presently saving for a DSLR but in the meantime has been given an old Pentax K1000 with original kit lenses!! How fab is that?!  So we got it some film and a battery for its exposure meter to work and actually got it up and running this evening after work!  She was like a 'kid in a candy store'! Okay, we both were!!

Doesn't it look a beauty?!  I was pleasantly surprised to discover how easy it was to convert from digital to analogue.  Of course only the results will prove how worthy the adventure but there is an infectious charm in its sturdy, weighty substance. 

Well, I have to say the ice on the ground told us we would not manage much especially as we both left our gloves in bag back in the car!!  Unbelievable! If I wasn't living this I wouldn't believe it! Is there some kind of mind numbing hypnosis going on with a chant of 'you don't need gloves' despite the knuckle pains?!!  So after we laughed (at the beginning of our walk- I hasten to add it was a very different emotion shared later as we left the park) we threw caution to the chilled wind and positioned eye and trigger finger for the hunt!

A little B&W macro to warm up! Except it never did get warm!  -3 today!

But we both liked this accidental sculpture..it's a tree that's been severely cut..into what my imagination felt was now a 'guardian' as it over looked the pond and the climbing frames.  The lumps of white...ICE! 

The world through a child's eyes: Bar on my cot, bars on my play-pen, bars on my climbing frame...bars keep you safe they say..and yet..do they not also speak of 'being barred', or of 'being behind bars'?  

The thing is when you are small..all steps can appear as mountains!