The landscape becomes more enclosed and pastoral away form the
remote moorland tops of the Dark Peak. Within the national park
the landscape remains peaceful but the isolation diminishes as the
landscape becomes more intimate and settled with gritstone walled
enclosures and isolated gritstone farmsteads, often with associated
field barns and sheep pens. The improved fields and tree cover
increase towards the valley bottoms creating variety in the landscape and intermingling with gritstone buildings.
Peak District National Park Authority, Dark Peak Western Fringe
On Sunday morning I woke very early, I left my teenagers and Spud the dog to their slumbers and zipped off to one of my favourite hills and watched the weather ebb and flow. I took these shots around six am…
June 30, 2011 at 9:21 pm
beautiful shots!
June 30, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Well worth the early rise.
July 1, 2011 at 12:40 am
Oh simply gorgeous!!!
July 1, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Wait … there’s a 6am on a Sunday? Well, I never …
Lovely pictures – I can almost imagine a Byronic hero striding around the fields in glamorous angst. Good grief, it’s been a long week and I think my little mind has gone wandering off on its own again.
July 1, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Magical, and timeless! xx
July 1, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Fantastic shots! I admire your dedication to your blog. In case you missed them, I can tell you that there were some lovely inky rainy intense skies over in Torch Lake earlier this week too. (‘And then it started to rain’ on 29th July.) I think you must have put more leg-work into getting your pictures though. (Or would there be a lay-by just out of the frame on some of these? Actually, I often wonder that, but don’t disabuse us of the idea that you march many miles and many contours to get these shots.)
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July 4, 2011 at 3:51 am
Beautiful & magical. I never tire of seeing your hills and thank you for the sheep included further down.