Dull day in the Cotswolds. The sort of day you will the sky gods to switch on the lights. But then I spotted this wonderful tree. It lit up the street and the ochre tones of old Cotswold stone. I’ve no idea what it is. (I should have done a close-up of the berries). Notions anyone? Jude? Laura?
For logistical reasons that ever confound family gatherings at Christmas, we celebrated ours a week earlier than most people, staying in a cottage near Broadway. The weather was mostly dank and dismal, but there was the odd bright interval, and the splashes of red, festive and otherwise, brightened up the street scenes.
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Happy New Year Everyone
Tish Farrell 
how lovely it is
It’s certainly a very characteristically scenic part of the English Midlands. The old weathered stone is very pleasing. Fresh cut it can be a little alarming in its yellowness 🙂
Never been to the Cotswolds at Christmas. Love the stone work.
It certainly gives one a step-back-in-time kind of feeling, Thom.
It looks amazing, Tish. 🤩 Broadway is great for Holiday inspiration. A chocolate box location indeed. Happy New Year to you and yours.
Best wishes from the coast,
The Fab Four of Cley
Happy New Year, Dina (and all the Fab Four of course).
I hope you enjoyed your Cotswold Christmas. Your photos showed you simply couldn’t have been anywhere else. I like the well-wrapped door! And Happy New Year!
I, too, liked the notion of the well-wrapped door. I wished we could have done walking while we were there. So many enticing footpaths, but oh, so much mud.
Walking? What’s that? I haven’t walked on an untarmacked surface for weeks now.
We’re all but washed away in Bishops Castle.
It’s pretty much like that here too.
Beautiful street scenes Tish! I love the stone buildings. If I ever visit England, this is the part I would love to see. But it’s not likely that I will at age 80 and beyond. That’s why I love your blog. You’re bringing it to me!
So happy to help with a little vicarious travelling, Anne. Happy New Year.
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We don’t really know when Christ birth was so why can’t we celebrate any time we want? Decorations might be different but that too is open to interp.
Broadway looks especially lovely dressed up for Christmas! I have no idea what that tree is but I can see why it caught your eye.
Hello, Sarah. Happy New Year to you.
And to you Tish!
Hello! Is the tree a whitebeam?
Not airbus 😂. Sorbus!!!
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Sorbus. Now that’s a good thought, Les.
Gorgeous photos as usual, Tish!
And a very Happy New Year to you too!
Many thanks, kind sir. All good wishes to you too.
I’ll have to look Cotswold up on the map. Sounds very much like Saint-Mary Meads. 😉
So you do have family scattered across the UK? How nice to get together.
A belated Joyeux Noël et une excellente nouvelle année mon amie.
🙏🏻🤗
Yes, St. Mary Meads – definitely that kind of ‘feel’ in the Cotswold villages. We don’t have much of a family to scatter, but 6 of us were well-gathered in a cosy cottage. We usually go to Anglesey, North Wales.
Curiosity of the Brit villages is definitely luring…
6 is 6. And is perfectly fine. More so in a cosy cottage…
I’ll look up Anglesey on the map.
Kwaheri sassa.
Just went to the map. How nice. Almost facing “Doblin” and the isle of Man. Must be some fantastic walks over there.
No idea what that tree is, but it’s beautiful. You know, pictures come out better under a gray sky. It’s counter-intuitive, but flat lighting tends to produce better pictures that bright sunshine even though I think we all personally LIKE sunshine better. It has been gray around here most of the time too. OR raining. We have current rumors of snow (maybe) this weekend. Even those of us who don’t love snow anymore can’t help but hope we get at least a little bit. Your town is beautiful in every weather.
I agree about the low light effect. It can yield v. surprising results. Though I’m pretty tired of all the gloom and wetness. But today we have sun. Hurrah! Happy New Year, both!
How delightful to have a week away near Broadway, a very pretty Cotswold town and I love the decorations. As for the tree, you sent me scuttling off to consult my own Broadway images to see if I had a photo of the tree in leaf, but although I have the Deli, unfortunately not the tree. I can only suggest a Rowan or some kind of Crataegus. I know that opposite is a lovely red horse-chestnut!!
It didn’t strike me as a Rowan, Jude, but something close among the Rosaceae. Whitebeam has been suggested.
It’s no good. You’re going to have to go back and take more photos 😁
Of course! Why didn’t I think of that 🙂
Happy New Year Tish. Your reds are great. You even have a door gift wrapped. 😀
Cheers, Cee. I love the gift-wrapped door.
Happy New Year, Tish!
That tree looks like a crabapple cultivar. Do such grow in the UK?
Hello, Sarah. Yes, we have lots of crab apple cultivars plus the native species in the UK. Whitebeam, a Sorbus, also a member of the Rosaceae has been suggested. I wish I’d had a closer look. It was such an unusual find on a town High Street.
Happy new year. The stones come alive in sunlight
Don’t they just!
How perfectly picturesque for Christmas and very festive. Sending very best wishes for the year ahead.
And all the very best to you too, Carol.