Wychwood Park was founded as an artists colony in the late nineteenth century by painter Marmaduke Matthews.

The area was then a rural region just outside of the city. Matthews named it after Wychwood in his native Oxfordshire.

Taddle Creek was dammed to create a large pond in the middle of the park.

The area remains a private community.

The overnight snowfall gave an interesting aspect to the botany:

Other photos from nearby:

NATURE POETRY

Listen . . . With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.                                                                  – Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914)

Miles Hearn