Snowy scenes from St Annes

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A rare sight
a settling of snow on the beach

Wintry sky over
St Annes Beach Huts and St Annes Pier

St Annes beach

The edge of the saltmarsh

Drama in the sky

Ghostly footprints in the snow

Eerily beautiful

That same old walk never looks the same
from one day to the next


I wonder what tomorrow will bring?

Snapshots from a morning’s walk

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Start of the walk
through a clump
of twisty white poplar trees

Heading for the beach

View from beach
of distant snow-capped hills

North – snowy Lake District
East – Wolf Fell and Parlick with dusting of snow

Cormorant’s view
from deep channel marker
Southport across the river

River Ribble

River Ribble
Lytham windmill ahead

River Ribble – tide coming in

Sea defence at Granny’s Bay

Patterns in the sun

Curlew takes flight from a frosty saltmarsh

Frosty saltmarsh

Sea-buckthorn berries and stonechat

Female stonechat in her larder
Stonechat

End of the walk
along dunes and scrubland
clump of white poplars ahead