Nice autumnal light and colours in and around the Ironbridge gorge.

   

   

   

   

   

A walk up the Wrekin on a bright, breezy and showery afternoon

   

   

   

A trip to Skye – via the refurbished museum at Summerlee and Cromarty. The weather on the island was not at its best, with gales, some heavy rain and general dampness, but also one or two brighter spells.

Summerlee: Glasgow tram no 1017

Cromarty harbour
   

Staffin Island (complete with “The Hut on Staffin Island”)

River Conon

Camas Mor – Rainbow’s end

Mist in the Quiraing

More from Camas Mor

Later that evening…
   

Treaslane River

Cramond (on the banks of the Forth, near Edinburgh – we’re on our way home again)
   

At last! The car told me it was 82 degrees in the old money – about 27.5C – as we drove the short distance home. It had certainly been hot in the sunshine, though most of our walk was pleasantly cool amongst the trees. Still plenty of bluebells, and a fair smattering of early purple orchids. The air seemed too clear for settled warm weather though, and the forecast is for a cool down over the coming week

A sunny afternoon – a walk down to the river and back, and at last some real signs that spring is here.

   

Yes, the year’s first violet, and the year’s first butterfly (a comma)

The forecast was much better than reality –there wasn’t much sunshine, but the air was fresh and mild – just right for this walk from Broseley, via Benthall and Buildwas bridge, to Coalbrookdale.

The crocuses are out, and there are fluffy white clouds sailing through a blue sky. And it’s not cold. It’s not warm either, but that biting easterly cold seems to have gone. Just right for a wander beside the Severn, near Linley, just a couple of miles north of Bridgnorth.

This part of the Severn valley is pretty inaccessible – just a mud road along the old railway track. Linley station is intact and inhabited, though the trackless trackbed below the platform is a reminder of what the rest of the route might have looked like, had it not been for the SVR.

A sunny Saturday afternoon at last! Just right for a wander across the fields, on those uplands that mark the northern end of the Wenlock Edge, between Much Wenlock and Broseley.

 

 

 

There were some huge shower clouds about too – great for photographic skies…

The weather’s still cold – the month started with heavy snow; today, there’s another sprinkling. Blists Hill might look good under a bit of snow? Yes, it would – but the sun stayed behind the clouds.

Sunday afternoon – an outing to the Kerry Ridgeway. There’s a car park where the Clun – Kerry road crosses the ridge, which provides  for a reasonably level stroll (it was hardly a stroll, given the depth of snow) with, potentially, wonderful views of the Welsh borderland

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