A walk in the woods of Ruislip

I was informed Saturday that unless it is summer, it's not typically good to walk in the woods without shoes that are good in mud.  Since the high temperature then was about 32°, I figured it would be a good day for a stroll in the woods.

It was nice walking along the icy snow packed trail. I was hoping to find some cool animals like a fox, deer, or something out of the ordinary. I was disappointed in my hope, but found contentment in listening to the birds in the trees. A lot were up in the trees. I'm not familiar with any of the songs they were singing, but the songs were all beautiful.

I don't know what else to tell you about the woods. As I walked through them, I found they all looked pretty much the same. Trees without leaves, some bushes that were still green, and ivy.  I could see how people could get lost in the woods. Because it all looks the same it's hard to tell where you've been and where you're really going.


 I found this little make-shift hut that may have been made by some local scout troop.  We'll just keep with that story, cause I could see myself doing that when I was about that age.

This twisted tree looked pretty cool.

The main thing I was hoping to see was Ruislip Lido, which, from what I could tell, was a small reservoir. I was really surprised to find something like that around London. It rains so much around here that I figured they would never need something like a reservoir, but there it is.

These pictures were taken while I was walking through Mad Bess Wood. It makes me wonder what poor Bess did to get the whole wooded area named after her… It was all pretty bleak. Not even one evergreen tree, which is something I guess I've taken for granted– that if there is snow there is a tree somewhere that is still green. This is definitely a place I'll have to come back to visit sometime later in the year, when things have come alive again.

This was something really random to me. I never thought someone would be so interested in climbing a power line pole, but just to make sure, barbed wire was wrapped around the pole. I guess it's just proof that the mindset of people in England is generally different than those that I am used to living around.