Now POD’s three she’ll often tell you what she’s doing and what she’s about to do. Unless you ask her what she did at nursery and her response will always be “nothing”.
POD loves to be outdoors and this woodland walk should have been no different. But it was. Perhaps it was that renewed sense of freedom.
Gone was the coat, the hat and the wellies, replaced with a dress that blew behind her as she ran. Her beloved muddy puddles had gone but there were sticks aplenty. For a time it was just us, wandering along the grass lined paths with the blue sky above and the sun beaming down.
When we reached a wide open space POD stopped on a bench surrounded by knobbly trees. She said she had a stone in her shoe.
Once back together, POD ran to another bench shouting “come on”, waving her arm as she went. She was convinced she was too far away to be photographed. But she wasn’t and a thoughtful looking POD was captured in the process.
She probably wasn’t thinking much but she looks like she’s pondering something. Unless she was just taking in her surroundings and enjoying the glorious sunshine.
It wasn’t long before she was off again, running round in circles, only stopping to watch the occasional butterfly. When she climbed onto another bench for an impromptu lie down, she didn’t notice I was there with my camera.
What a truly wonderful scene to capture.
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WOW there has a fairytale quality about tit , utterly beautiful
That’s a lovely thing to say Claire, thank you 🙂
These photos are utterly gorgeous. It’s like you have creeped up on a little fairy playing in her garden, they are stunning, especially the black and white one of POD laying on the bench. Beautiful.
Thank you so much Franki – that’s lovely. She did look a bit like a fairy 🙂
So very pretty! I love the black & white one of her looking down at her shoes x
Thank you very much Michelle 🙂
Stunning photographs that really tell the story of the day. I can’t wait for the summer dresses to come out, it’s been lovely here although cooler on the coast!
Thank you Kara. Such a change not seeing her in wellies!
Gorgeous photos xx
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Thank you Anna-Marie 🙂
Such beautiful pictures, she will treasure all these memories when she grows up!
I do hope so, thank you 🙂
Such gorgeous photos! A perfect record of what sounds like a perfect woodland walk. #magicmoments
Thank you Maddy, was a lovely walk 🙂
Oh my the last two are simply beautiful! Lovely photos 🙂
Thank you Kate – I love that last one especially 🙂
Gorgeous photos. I love the one with her checking her shoe for that pesky stone!
Thank you Laura – I do love that one too. Such a beautiful sight with all those trees!
Wow!! Wonderful captures and a little cute angel..:)
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Thank you very much 🙂
Stunningly beautiful stills, wow x
You too kind but thank you lovely. I do adore these 🙂
Wonderful photos as always. I wish I could get Fran into a pretty dress like Pod’s.
Funnily enough POD has recently decided that jeggings are for boys and she wants to wear dresses. She has very few that fit now she’s had a growth spurt but this one was new 🙂
Charly, these photos are breathtakingly beautiful, not that i’d expect anything less from you. They have a real woodland fairytale feel to them and POD looks so pretty in her dress xxx
That’s such a lovely thing to say Vikki, thank you. It’s so funny seeing POD running about her her white dress, she loved it!
What a lovely story and POD is a beautiful girl. On the “nothing” response from nursery, I have some advice. We started to have a news round thing at dinnertime, with actions, songs and I would get the boys to pretend to be reporters and tell me their news from school and I would do the same (yes I am a loon)!
Thank you Jen. That is such a great idea, I may well try that one 🙂
Absolutely stunning photos, like you I wonder what she was thinking about.
It’s funny isn’t it. Her reply would have been nothing if I asked her LOL! Thank you 🙂
lovely photos, and i love your accompanying thoughts! i wonder what she was thinking about!
Thank you very much Laura. She loved it out there in her dress, no idea what she was thinking about. If anything 🙂
Ahh such contemplative photos – they definitely love not being restricted don’t they? I love her purple shoes and the white dress…and the background …and pretty much all those photos! 🙂
Thank you, they really are contemplative aren’t they! I’m sure that’s what it was, she was loaded with clothing! I’m sure those crocs won’t be fitting for much longer, she had them last summer. Useful for water play though 🙂
This is an absolutely stunning location for pictures. Lucky you to have found it and hopefully it’s a place you can go time and time again. I love these pictures. Your lil one is gorgeous too. These are just so stunning I am in awe of each and everyone of them. Fantastic livingarrows post!
Funnily enough we were going somewhere else but the traffic was so bad we went on a detour. This woodland is not known by many but it’s fabulous – my husband used to go as a child. Thank you for your lovely words 🙂
All of the pictures are just beautiful, but the black and white ones are simply stunning! x
Thank you very much Kirsty, I do love those 🙂
These are such beautiful photos! I love her dress 🙂
Thank you Anna. Dress was a birthday present from relatives (it was on Christmas Day)
Such pretty photos – she looks so lovely in that dress. It seems odd seeing her without her wellies!
Thank you Annie. It’s lovely seeing her in a dress – so many clothes recently. She must have loved being without her wellies 🙂
Such a beautiful collection of images that tells the story perfectly. Wonderful. Oh and my eldest still tells me very little even at aged 7, whereas my 3 year old tells me everything in absolute detail! So funny how different they are.
Thank you Iona. Isn’t it funny the different between sharing and not! At the moment she thinks it’s really funny to say nothing but I do hope that changes. We do get to know what she’s doing but it’s always better to hear it from her 🙂
These are such beautiful photographs! She is such a sweetie 🙂 x
Thank you very much Keri-Anne 🙂
I love the scene with the knobbly trees – it really is magical and your pictures are adorable.
Thank you very much Sam 🙂
She looks so beautiful, stretched out on that gorgeous bench! This is definitely a shot to treasure. Funnily enough, when I ask Austin what he’s been doing at pre-school, his response is very similar to POD’s!
It’s good to hear it’s not just POD saying she does nothing! I love that last photo, it was just so random lying on a bench like that. A wonderful capture though 🙂
Oh Charly I love this post. These pictures are so beautiful and such lovely words x
Thank you very much, so lovely to see her outdoors in the sunshine. She’s had many welly walks, must make a nice change!
Beautiful photographs. My son also does ‘nothing’ when he is at school and he never did anything at Nursery either! ha ha! I love the photos of her laid down on the bench. I’m not sure why but it reminds me of Alice in Wonderland. Lovely.
Thank you Bek. It’s funny how they say they do nothing isn’t it. Maybe they just don’t want us to know what they’re up to LOL 🙂
Stunning photos.
It’s been so wonderful letting the kids run around contently outside in the warm sunshine again. I can’t wait to crack out the summer dress again
Thank you. POD loves the outdoors but she’s really loved having a proper play in the garden. Must have been great running round in a dress 😉
Such beautiful photography. I love the first (and last) in particular. Like she is totally unaware and just enjoying the surroundings. Very natural x
Aww magical photo, she’s like a little fairy out in the woods x
Such beautiful photographs – definitely need to be printed x x
OMG….. Such gorgeous portraits; she looks like a fairy princess – utterly magical. X
As beautiful as ever 🙂 She is growing so fast. Thank you for linking to Magic Moments x
Beautiful pictures.
At least we know that your little one can sit still for a little while 🙂
Oh how beautiful and I love her dress! We get the standard ‘nothing’ reply when we ask our son what he has done at school!
A beautiful little princess in the forest…
So much more interesting that the nursery where you do nothing… 😉 xx
The black and white pictures look fabulous with her gorgeous hair and that light dress. Just beautiful x
These photos are beautiful. And such a lovely day to take them on too.
Huge Congrats on your well deserved finalist spot!!
Your pictures are always so stunning and Pod really is a beautiful subject! xx
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