Sheffield Park... and the sun shone for a bit!

I'd planned to go birding today but wasn't sure the weather was going to be up to much.  So after a quick trip into town I headed of for NT Sheffield Park and Gardens.

I've been many times before in the Spring and Autumn but never in the winter.  Today, as I drove there, the sun came out and, for a while, the wind dropped - it was lovely.  Unfortunately it didn't last for long and after a very nice lunch of Roasted Vegetable Soup and a piece of Carrot Cake, the heavens opened and that, as they say, was that.

I took a few pictures ;)

The House is not part of Sheffield Park Gardens and is not open to the public.  I've often wondered about its ownership and today I discovered this information about it.

Around the gardens there were Christmas decorations... this was the first one!

Previous versions of this view on my blog have
 been in full  Autumn Colour

Standing on the bridge looking down; the top of
this picture is the bottom of the waterfall

I found this sheep family when I took a detour to the top of the woods; they were at the edge of the cricket pitch!