Up in smoke.

The new chickens are confused. Is this their first taste of snow? Sadly it's not. There was a lovely wood just down the road that has recently been cleared to make way supposedly for arable farming although the talk is that a housing estate is planned in a few years time for it. We walked through the field only two days ago and felt sad for the demise of the trees that were bundled up in mountains of wood. Now we are enveloped in thick white smoke and falling ash because the wood is being burned. What a waste. It does smell like a lovely Autumnal bonfire though but those dancing pieces of ash, falling softly into the garden is all that is left of a vibrant environment that used to house nesting birds, rabbits, badgers and bunnies.