It is 6 am here on Sunday morning. I woke up at 5 with my heart jumping around and worried about a snafu in my dad's caregiver situation. I knew I wasn't going to go back to sleep so turned this on...Just what the doctor ordered...TRANQUILITY. Thank you, Kate. I am telling you this so you will know what a gift you give by sharing your world with us.

A magical train station in an enchanted wild woods....dreamy, sigh. The biggest Beech tree guarding the forest and home to many wee fairy folk I'm sure. It was like walking with a friend :) Oh and I loved hearing the Coots on the lake!

Hello Kate~What a lovely stroll. I was raised in a very similar area in NE Ohio, US, and have many many memories of the birdsong and awakening of the earth. I love that smell. My father was a gardener, naturalist, and all-around outdoors (never hunted) sort of man, and we three children were always at his side for strolls through the area. Thank you for the lovely memories that you evoked. I invited my son to come and join me for the RR stroll, and he really loved it, and said that when you returned later in the year, he love to see it in full bloom. We're to have a blizzard later today, so Spring is only a wish right now, however my main wish is that my daughter returns safely from her road trip, we know how dangerous white-out conditions can be. Thanks again Kate, and I look forward to your visit to this charming site later in the spring.

Hello Sunshine! I have enjoyed every one of your podcasts so far. found you a few days ago and have been binge watching. Love the variety of subjects, from quilting to cooking to walks by the lake to gardening and knitting! Love it all! Many thanks . hugs from Texas, USA. - Granny Jo

Again, this was thoroughly enjoyable. There is no need for me to travel when I can sit on my sofa and escape to your wonderful corner of paradise. Thank you so much for sharing this Kate.

Oh my, Kate... you live in an absolutely beautiful area. What a way to spend your Sunday morning. I thoroughly enjoyed the history of it all. To think at one time it was such a productive and bustling area. Now it rests and is once again given back to nature. I could stay there all day listening to the birds, I can never get too much of that. A Lovely video, thank you for sharing your home and area.

Thanks for the walk and chat🦙✂️🧵🍒

Your voice is so peaceful I fell asleep. I had to try a second time when I woke up. I love to hear the stories and the sounds of nature. All the land around you is so pretty!💙

I used to mind the tourists in our woodsy lake area, but like you I realized that I'm so blessed to get to live here all year long and these poor souls have to go back to the city after their vacation. So now I enjoy seeing them enjoying our area. In the winter we have it pretty much to ourselves (except for snowmobilers!). ;)

Coming to your channel everyday is like a trip home . To me there is no place as peaceful .I left home when I was 20 years old , now I'm 70, however I still miss home. My uncle was a devoted fisherman he loved to be out over night fishing. How wonderful that the Railway station is still in use. My husband is a retired Railroad engineer. This was like reading a book, I feel as though I was there. Thank you Kate.

The station masters house and station would be a grand place to live. The station house would make an awesome craft/sewing studio. Thanks for the walk this morning. I used to go for long walks in our woods in Tennessee with my wolfdogs. That is until my back started giving way and my Drs told me no more for fear I'd fall and be alone. I love walking but now it's hard to walk thru a large store then back to my car. I'm a couple yrs older than you and we have so many interest alike. Enjoyed this so much.

What a beautiful view of your lake and the vicinity. I loved your presentation. It was a wonderful Sunday morning with you. Thanks for thinking of us.

I love your videos! I am crocheting at the moment, the sun is streaming in the South window in the sitting room (used to be our dining room), the little dog is curled up beside me, not sure where the cat went of to and I am listening to your video. Very pieceful. You have a marvelous voice and have a way of calming me and making me enjoy the day at a slower pace! Thank You from PEI, Canada

Kate you truly bring a sense of calm when all is going upside down in our lives 🙄🇦🇺

Been a fan and a follower for 4 years. Just stumbled across this and it is STELLAR 😮😮😮😮. Thanks for showing us your area. You live in an amazing place. You ROCK!

Hello Kate ~ The songbirds have not arrived where I live yet. It is something I wait for with anticipation. It always marks the beginning of Spring for me along with the sighting of the first Robin. As I mentioned before I live not far from one of the two rivers that join in my town. We were once known as The Forks of the Grand. Later we were renamed for the plaster of Paris that was mined here. I thought it quite lovely to see the Snowdrops along your walk. Have a wonderful week Kate and thank you for the video.

Hi Kate, a lovely walk you took us on, by the secret lake and through the woods to the old railway. Your own version of Escape to the Country. I just love it. Regards from Oz

Thanks for showing around your beautiful area.

One of my most favourite children’s books is “ The Secret Garden” You are so lucky to live in that world for real 💚

I really enjoyed that Kate. It makes you feel like a train will pull in at any minute on the station! We’ve come up to Windermere for a long weekend, so I am feeling the wonder and beauty of nature right along with you today🙏🧚🏻‍♂️xx

Thank you for taking us along with you on your walk. It's so peaceful. What a wonderful way to start my day.

A year later but a much needed rest bit! Thank You Kate. I so appreciate You and your KZfaq channel 💕

Beautiful brisk morning ,that was so nice , quite serene . Love seeing all the snow drops and listening to the birds .makes me miss Scotland even more than I already do , but not in a sad way .

I know this is old but just watched today. I loved seeing this. Seeing the woods, flowers, lake and those birds. So many, how beautiful, Thank you.

Hi Kate. This was paradise. What a gorgeous part of nature. The sounds of those birds is like the start of spring. Everything coming to life. I love things that are old and covered by nature like the train track. The building is beautiful and so vintage. Even inside. I love that style. You can take me anytime on a walk like this and I will enjoy it immensely. Thanks Kate. xxxxx💕

I'm so glad you shared this. I live in the desert southwest, and really miss the big trees we had back east. Trees here are nowhere near as large, they have to be smaller to conserve water. I'd love to see that beech in full foliage. It's so pretty and birds sounds so good. Thank you.

In April there is what is called a "Carp Rodeo" in a tiny little town in the middle of Nevada called Alamo, Nv. The "rodeo" is on Lake Pahranagat which means "Valley of the shining water" in Paiute. It is a fun family outing. One of the ladies in our Red Hat group of 7 caught the first carp of the day and won a prize. We had such fun that day and went on to visit the Alien Museum.I so enjoyed your lovely walk by the "secret lake'"! I love the scenery. As I live in the desert, the water, trees, and the little coots singing are as soothing as a good cup of tea.

Beautiful walk - thank you Kate. I'll join you next time too. It just made me happy. Take care.

Oh my. I had to turn the sound up and just sit and enjoy the birdsong as you walked. I love sitting outside each morning and listen to my birds here in Florida sing and let me know I need to feed them. What a beautiful place you live in.

Thank you. What a treat!

I enjoyed this video. I used to live in Louisiana, in the US, and went carp fishing. But we never it did it at night. We just pulled out a cane pole, made from bamboo, and fished. Nothing special. It gave me a chuckle, this video. The chest of drawers! I love “yard art”, and this has given me an idea.

Hello Kate, it’s the 8/10/2021. I have been watching your amazing videos for about 4 months now and have enjoyed every one of them, but I can honestly say that this one is has brought so many memories of my childhood days back in Malta,, going for long walks with my daddy. I have been a widow for nearly a year now and watching how you manage life on your own gives me hope. Bless you dear KZfaq friend.

I was watching for the old cabinet planter. There is so much more here, glad to find such a rich video.

Hello Kate, the Wrens sound and the snow drops so magical spring has arrived , What a beautiful mindful journey away from the hustle and bustle. Thank you for cheering me up.

This channel came up too .just watch your last homly garden .lovly places , interesting history . Thankyou .

What a lovely walk. The snowdrops are so pretty and what I wouldn't give for a pot of tea and slice of cake in that lovely cafe! Thank you again Kate, blessings x

I just love you sharing your walks, drives, and all of your many talents, that includes cooking. I love your home and garden. My family and I used to hike and walk and a lot of camping. That was many years ago.

Fun adventure with you, thank you!! Just beautiful there!!

I just discovered this video. It is Oct. 2023. What a wonderful, tranquil area, and the history is so interesting. I really appreciate getting to go along on walks like this. More please. 😊

HI Kate, What a wonderful spring walk. You really live in the middle of nature on a beautiful spot of earth. The snowdrops look magical and completely untouched. If there are some blossoms near us, they will be demolished immediately. The most beautiful thing, I find, is that you can walk into the forest, and find such beautiful places. If you don't have a car here with us, you need more than an hour by bus or tram, or much longer until you get out of the city. I think the old station still has a lot of charm. You can well imagine how life used to play out here. If you plan your next walk, let me know. I come here jumped and join you. In the imagination, at least. Thank you for this beautiful video. Big hug Claudia

That was wonderful! Thanks for sharing with us. I loved it all, but especially the old chest of drawers with pansies in it. You’d have to smile every time you looked at it.

Early Sunday morning here in upstate NY, I put the kettle on for tea and found your newest video. I thoroughly enjoyed your walk and hearing the birds singing. Our lovelies here haven't really started their singing yet, so yours were a real treat. Thank you so much for the hint of Spring to come!

This was a wonderful walk with you to an unbelievable lovely and peaceful hidden place. Spring is the best time of the year, nature is waking up, love to hear the birds, seemed they're happy. I'd like to take a seat at the bench with you and have a cup of coffee. ☕🍰For kids a paradise too. I could imagine my sons climbed on the trees, they have done that in their younger times everywhere it was possible. Thanks for sharing your Sunday walk with us /me, it was a great pleasure cause my arthritis is overacting today and I can't walk through the nature how I like. 🐌Wish you a sunny afternoon. Thanks so much. Big hug 🤗🐞, Anna

It is so nice that you live I. Such a rural area. I loved the walk I. The woods, the lake with the coots, and the birds chittering and chirping all along the walk. I experienced it like I was right there with you - except no February cold!

What a beautiful walk. Nice pic looking through the railroad arch. Could sit and enjoy that area all day!

Kate you didn’t say if you fish if you do or you talk to one of the fisherman get you one of the fish put it underneath your fig tree bury it It makes wonderful fertilizer I live down the river in Michigan we used to have carp the time. My husband would always bring them to me I would bury them in my garden. We enjoyed fishing behind our house. When we first got married over 50 years ago we build our own house. We had an out house outback we would watch the ice as we sat on our bottom. We had four children they all learn to swim in the river. The children loved it. God bless you for showing us your lake.

Thank you so much for the lovely walk. It's as if we were all on a mini vacation. Perfect outing for a Sunday morning in late February. The train station and what is has become is lovely. You can imagine trains pulling in... the beech tree, a very grand tree indeed. Thank you again for such a lovely walk. Have a good day dear Kate. 🤗

Thank you! X

You are so blessed in so many ways Kate...I'm sure your little ones loved walks in the woods with you and climbing that tree!

What a lovely place to walk. I loved it all, the lake, the railway path, and station house...it was so peaceful. Thank you so much for sharing the history of this place. Have a Blessed day. I will look forward to future walks with you.

I loved this video the first time I saw it, and I've come back to watch it a couple more times since then. It is like something I would see in a pleasant, happy dream.

The snowdrops remind me of my grandmother's garden where we visited her right after the war. I think I love gardening because of her, always showing me each little plant.

As Jane Austin would say " you have much to entertain!" Thanks Kate!

Ah...that was lovely Kate. Thank You for taking is along on your walk. Dale from Canada

Soooooo enjoy all your videos! Thank you very much for sharing your life and your interests! Wish I could visit with you over a cup of tea here in the Adirondack Mountains in NYS, USA where I live! XOXO

What a delightful little trip. Thank you so much.

I think you're very fortunate to live in such a beautiful part of the world! I live in a very urban and overpopulated part of The Netherlands. Nature's very cultivated here. Thanks for sharing your world with us and telling us about the history!

Loved the walk and the birds!!! I’m afraid there is still several feet of snow here and at least 2 months till snowdrops weather. Thank you so much ❤️🇨🇦

Thank you for sharing this incredible scene. Rick Steves, stay out of here and leave this part to Kate to show it in her loving way

Really enjoyed going on a ramble to the secret lake

What a beautiful place to walk, very peaceful. 😊❤

Thank you for the wonderful walk and history of your area. So peaseful. I love it.

Delightful. Thank you Kate - from New Orleans, LA. 💛

What a wonderfull & beautiful walk! Love spots like this! So awesome that you can walk there! So much is privately owned here/ posted/ no tresspassing, etc. Thank you!!

Thank you . Lovely 'armchair ' walk for us ... The KZfaq friends . A real walk for me later., though not in gorgeous rural Northumberland ...you can still find corners of Hampstead Heath with Nobody . Enjoying the lighter nights and Spring-like sun.

I really enjoyed this walk with you Kate! Thanks you for sharing this today!

Thank you Kate for the lovely 'tame' walk. February here in Australia is so very different, we are getting to the end of a hot and dry summer, hanging out for cooler air and some rain. It was a treat to walk through the cool woods with you. My rainbow lorikeets came back today, the peaches are all gone so the apples are their target. One brave lorikeet found the bird seed on the deck and helped herself. The other birds didn't mind sharing. Love from Ocean Grove.

Oh, to live amongst such beauty.

Came across & am enjoying your little piece of Heaven for the 4th time! I love this little video. My late husband was an avid Fisherman...mostly for Bass, but this so reminds me of the places I use to go with him...any little out of the way place that was lake is where you’d find him. Love the little Train Station tour too! Thank you for sharing this.

I’m looking at the lovely view and listening to the history and thought ...that looks like Agnes’s quilt 😊...anyone else see it ? X

thank you for this wonderful Sunday walk

Thank you for my wonderful walk in the woods ,a great way to spend my Sunday eve.

That was wonderful. A lovely spring walk with you Kate is just what I needed to sooth my anxious mind. Tranquil, very pleasing to the eyes and so informative. I could just imagine how it would have been when the trains were running and the station master blowing his whistle, people getting on and off the train. The hustle and bustle of it all. I could ‘see’ your little children running to climb that tree that holds so many memories for you. You really do live in a beautiful part of the world. Thank you Kate 🌺💖

Thank you for a visit to the beautiful place you call home. Hello from North Carolina (USA). Melody B

Beautiful video and such a lovely place you call home❣️To be surrounded with trees is such a blessing. Thank you for sharing your home place and look forward seeing more. One of my favorite things to do is to take a walk and stop off at a cafe for a treat of coffee or tea and a biscottis . How lovely there is the train depot cafe after a walk in the woods ❣️❣️❣️

So peaceful. Thank you x.

Love chest of drawers with flowers.

Beautiful thanks Kate

Lovely and interesting. Thank You!!

The birdsong is so so lovely.

Beautiful! And the birdsong was so soothing and lovely.

That was fabulous Kate ! Thank you so much. I love when you tell us the history of things. What an interesting place you live in.

Beautiful, thank you so much Kate for sharing this with us. Yes please do another for the train station/cafe in the summer ❤💚

Oh that beech tree! That brings back memories of the tree that used to grow in front of my grandmother's house. All of us young people would climb it. I was heartbroken to see one year that someone had bought her house and cut down the tree!

So peaceful. thank you

What an excellent day out! Thankyou, Kate.

What a beautiful place! You are so fortunate to live in such a wonderful place. Be blessed. ❤ XO Namaste & Stay crafty.❤xo💜xo💙xo💛xo💖xo💚

Kate, it's wonderful there! I hope you keep that promise and show it in other seasons (and other years, like now in 2020) too.

What a delightful way to start the day!! I woke up quite early here in NW Oregon, USA with too many worries to get back to sleep, turned on my phone and up popped this perfect video! There aren't any safe places for a woman to walk alone in nature where I live; creepy men and cougars lurk along the wooded trails, and menace small passersby.😳 I truly appreciate this beautiful, SAFE virtual walk with you, and now feel relaxed, calm and invigorated. Thus refreshed, I'm going to pick blackberries from the side of our field and bake some scones, put on the kettle and face my big day ahead with a big smile. Thank you, Kate!😍

What they did with the train station is terrific......so cute. I can imagine the train arriving and Miss Marple stepping down, ready to do some snooping.

Hi Kate, you are making me homesick for country England, thanks for the lovely video.

Oh what tales that tree could tell!! Just perfect ty. There's nothing like being out in the woods, listening to nature is there. Pure bliss. I was trying to imagine that railway platform many years back and how different it must have looked then. It's so pleasing to see these places being tended and reused instead of leaving them to rot and sit unwanted, It was almost as if Nature had stepped in to lend a hand to bring it back to life. Seeing this at a time like this, during Covid 19 lockdown makes staying in, away from nature and the woods , a little easier. Bless you.xxx

So nice to see you and John this morning 💐

What a beautiful area you live in! I so look forward to these times with you....I’m able to breathe easy and forget my troubles just for a few moments. Can’t wait for those future walks in the woods that you mentioned towards the end. 💕👵🏻

Seems like I've found a kindred spirit. Thank you.

What a beautiful area you live in - Magical!! and I loved that train station setting; the arches of the bridge didn't look high enough to let a train through :)

Love your Chanel from the moment I found it, inspirational, motivational with all you do, thank you from Indiana USA.

So peaceful, just like a walk with a dear friend. C from the little haunted cottage in Ireland 🍀🍀🍀👻👻👻

What a beautiful walk thru the lovely woods😘. Thank u for taking me along❗️

I really enjoyed this, you live in such a beautiful area and the history was interesting. Sad to think of how hard people had work in those days. I imagine the train ride back,even in the dark, must have been a welcome chance to sit and relax.