Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

We've just returned from 2 weeks with J's parents in Bad Karlshafen over J's mother's 70th, Christmas and New Year. We ate far too much good food and only exercised moderately, so we feel fat and I, for one, look it!

Berlin waited until our return to have its first decent snowfall last night, followed by a brilliantly clear day today, so I dressed in about 3 layers of clothing to venture out into the Schloss Chalottenburg park to take some images.

I followed my normal running route, but took it more slowly in order to take photographs. There were people everywhere. Like me some were armed with cameras, others were running or exercising dogs, but most were walking in the cold -5°C sunshine and enjoying it after so many days of gloom.

I have more posts coming up about what we little we did over Christmas, but for now I wanted to share today's shoot with you.

Enjoy!

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I love snow on trees

There were more people than I expected

The waterways in the park were frozen over

I love this bridge, although it's slippery to run over when it's wet!

Another frozen stream

Heavy with snow

Long shadows

Tiny icicles suspended from a branch

Curiously, this stream was not frozen over

The swan family which is usually in the schloss lake, took to the River Spree which was not so icy in comparison to their normal hangout