Strichen Community Park to Viewbank Bridge, McEwans Ale.

A rare day, cold and crisp with a thick hoar frost, perfect for walking the Line, we walked from  from the Lodge at Strichen Community park to Viewbank Bridge returning along Brewery Road. There was very little breeze and beautiful clear light. Almost all deciduous trees are now bare, those coppery golden leaves persisting on beech trees along the Line blazed in the sunlight.Sections of the Line were very wet indeed and we almost paddled through icy water in places. As usual there were many small birds, including long tailed tits in the lineside trees, particularly close to the coniferous wood close to the Lodge and we heard a buzzard over Borrohill Wood.

Morning frost on the field in front of the brewery which gave Brewery Road its name. Latterly the brewery functioned as a bottling plant.

 

Original label from a bottle of McEwan's pale ale bottled at the brewery  in Strichen

Looking back along the Line from the point closet to Strichen House. The White Horse and Hunter's Lodge are just visible on Mormond Hill. The coppery leaves are on beech trees.

White frost on grass and cow parsley