Not far from where we were staying while in the UK and en route to the wedding venue was Welford Park.  Nancy was interested in this place because it is the location for the filming of Bake Off.  However, it isn’t normally open to the public.  Spring is the one exception when the snowdrops flower in huge numbers in the woods on the estate and they open up for visitors.  Fortunately, the timing of this coincided with our visit so we scheduled a stop on our way to the wedding.

The weather was not looking like it would play ball.  Just as we arrived in the parking area – a field – the heavens opened.  We figured it was the UK so things could change quickly so waited it out.  Sure enough, ten minutes later the sun was out and we headed in.  There were a couple of times when the rain threatened again but we stayed basically dry, and we walked around the wood checking out the snowdrops.

They weren’t kidding.  We saw quite a few as we walked into the estate but then we got to the woods and the place was carpeted with them.  At first, I thought it was just the distance that made it look so dense but, no, when you got closer, it was really that many flowers.  We wandered around the grounds taking them all in.  It didn’t take too long, of course, before you started to get a little blasé about just how many there were.  Sure, more snowdrops!  No biggie!