An Autumn Trip to Burghley House (Part I)

With most of the leaves now fallen it is a joy to go back a month on my camera card and seeing some more autumn happiness on our travels.  Burghley House is a regular visit for us, and we absolutely love this place with its deer park, sculpture gardens and of course the tudor mansion.  So let's just park the bike and spend some time around this wonderful place.

The tree lined avenues were cloaked in gold before the inevitable high winds came along with incessant rain, so I was so happy to catch this moment.

Of course it is rutting season, so most of the deer were behind protective fencing but there was still plenty of opportunity to capture these gentle creatures.

However, I must stop diverting from what I wanted to show you this week.  With Burghley House you can walk around the grounds for free, but to see the Garden of Surprises and sculpture gardens you need to pay.  Most of the time we are blissfully happy with the freedom of the park, but this visit was going to be spent having rare moments with Mr Teen and I was most certainly going to make the most of it!

I have always wanted to eat lunch with the view over the lake (for years!!), and today was going to be it.  So, with Halloween just around the corner (can you believe that was nearly a month ago!), off we went to explore and capture the beauty of autumn in this place.  We were having more than a pumpkin punch, so the wicked witch's offering was not going to be accepted!!

The changing leaves were spectacular and did not disappoint.  So let's go on a quiet walk around the gardens.

And so to lunch!  A very sturdy and comfortable seat awaited.

And a very welcome bagel on the spot that I have yearned to look out on while we ate.

A beautiful view...

Right by the boat house.

Next time I will take you back onto the main park and the views of the wonderful Burghley House and more of the autumn leaves and deer.

Thank you for your good wishes for my surgery.  Just two more weeks and the bunions will be bunioffs!!  The Christmas shopping is in full flow while I am still mobile, but will give Black Friday a miss!

And, a very Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating this week!!