The new season’s leaves begin to unfurl in the hedgerow.
Category: Photography
Just photos – no particular theme
Misty morning – a woodland walk
It looked like it would be brighter earlier in the day, if not especially sunny. We’ll head for Benthall and the woods along the Edge. The woodland path passes through a wonderful 3D landscape, created partly by the trees but largely by Benthall Edge itself, with a steep drop to the left and numerous remnants of old quarries.
At the troll’s bridge, all we can hear is birdsong and the gently glugging of the tiny stream below – listen to the sound clip below…
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Blue and yellow – a walk to Wyke
Thursday 20 April: The sky is blue, the fields (several of them anyway) are bright yellow – the oilseed rape is in bloom. It’s not quite a classic English landscape, but it’s dramatic. The brilliant yellow makes it feel like the sun’s shining on the cloudiest of days. We’re walking from Barrow, across the fields to Wyke and back, on a very pleasant afternoon.
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Colemore and Boldings
Wednesday 19 April: at about 5.20pm, on what had been an unremittingly grey day, the sky cleared – we’re going out to enjoy the sunshine (and very fresh air… It’s not warm) for an hour or so, across the fields to Colemore Green, and back past the fishing pools and Astley Abbotts.
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Green man and yellow fields
A minor variation on a regular route – up Scots Lane and down the track past Linley church, visiting the green man on the north wall. The oilseed rape is coming into bloom – we can smell it (and no, ‘scent’ wouldn’t be the right word) as we cross the field to Bould Lane. Further along, the blackthorn blossom is brilliant white against a clear blue sky. It’s a colourful walk today!
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Uamh Oir – the gold cave
Skye: Thursday 6 April (continued): Our last day – and it’s a beautiful Skye day – bright, breezy, blue sea and sky. I’m going for gold – walking from Kilmuir village hall to the Gold Cave, via the Bornesketaig cliff tops. The gold’s all gone, of course. There’s a full moon – the tide is as low as it gets, and at such times the cave can be entered – but I’m on my own (and there’s no-one else about), so the risk of a fall on those slippery rocks is worth avoiding (I’ve been in it before, some years ago). I’ll return along the shore to the Camus More campsite, then back up the reed-lined road. There will be times on the long drive home that I’ll think of this afternoon.
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Blists Hill Miniature Steam
There wasn’t any steam at Chasewater yesterday, but there was plenty today at Blists Hill, with numerous (I didn’t try to count them – they kept moving around) scale model traction engines and similar things chuffing around the ‘Victorian Town’. Great fun!
Diesels at Chasewater
Just published to Geoff’s Rail Diaries, as account of yesterday’s visit to the Chasewater Railway – with lots of photos. Visit “Chasewater diesels” – now! – if only to find out (a little) more about this unusual machine…
Myfanwy
Perhaps best known as a sad but moving Welsh song (Google it!), Myfanwy is also the name of a rather fine (and very stripy) Bagnall diesel locomotive on the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire. Here she is on the special (!) train provided for members of the Industrial Railway Society, on the occasion of their AGM earlier today. There will be more photos tomorrow…
Uig – waterfalls and woodlands
Skye: Thursday 6 April: a morning outing, down to Uig to collect the newspaper – and an hour or so around the woodlands, visiting the Rha waterfall and revisiting the mossy trees beside the shore. It’s very green and very damp here.
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