Short walks with photos and a Google map.
The skies are cloudless over Corvedale! Blue overhead, and bluebells in the verges; yellow fields of oilseed rape and buttercups too. A red kite too! A colourful day for quiet ways…
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Thursday evening 11 May: a friend’s comment on seeing one of these… Bright, clear and directional sunshine, through gaps in the clouds, after a day of hail storms. Later, the sun’s behind the clouds for a while, but there’s still some interest for the camera.
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We walked this way several weeks ago, when Bullhill Brook was flooded and we couldn’t get to the footbridge. Instead, we followed a most pleasant path through the fields behind Bull Farm. Today we’re following the same route – except that we’re not visiting the ford first… Yesterday was rainy, all day (hence the avoidance of the ford), and tomorrow’s forecast is similar – but today it’s warm, bright and sunny. No jackets or jumpers needed – and we heard our first cuckoo of the year. Despite the rain, truly it’s spring
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It’s May – the early purple orchids should be coming into bloom on Wenlock Edge. It’s a fine dry evening – lets go and see…
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It may well be a bank holiday, and there’s plenty of sunshine too, but there’s no-one else out on foot today. Not around Church Preen, anyway…
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There could be a shower this afternoon (there was!) – might be good to be in the woods, for a bit of shelter (it was!). The sun shone as we walked up through Mose (feeling really warm, for the first time this year), but the clouds were gathering when we paused at the chocolate spot (a log beside the pool). Not far back to the start – we only got slightly damp…
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A fine cold sunny morning, perfect for a short leg-stretch in the valley of the Severn. We’ve timed it well – the sky is cloudy now, just a short time after lunch. The Met Office was right!
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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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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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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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