This time last year we were holed up in Wasdale, I’ve been hankering after the place, although there is nowt wrong with here you understand, it’s just I’d like the freedom from ‘stuff’ that comes with going away for a few days, at home you can never quite escape the chores, the niggling phone calls [...]
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
I Wish I Was in Wasdale
Posted in Boundries, Derbyshire, Drystone walls, Environment, Farming, History, Lake District, Landscape, Moorland, Peak District National Park, Photography, Weather on October 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Field Views
Posted in Autumn, Boundries, Derbyshire, Drystone walls, Environment, Farming, Field studies, Landscape, Peak District National Park, Photography, Thoughts, Travel, Weather on October 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Early one morning. Fields, houses and the English village essentials, the cricket pitch and football pitch.
The puffs of smoke from the chimney in the photo below, are from the tunnel of a railway line that burrows it’s way through the hillside.
Fair Game
Posted in Derbyshire, Environment, Farming, Field studies, Found objects, Landscape, Moorland, Nature, Peak District National Park, Photography, Thoughts, Wildlife on October 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
A giggling grouse, one amongst many, they are out there, you hear them, but you just can’t see them.
This sign gave me a smile,
Ok, I’m all for protecting moorland, all birds in fact (I’m especially very fond curlews) but the sign could also have read, ‘To protect moorland birds until such [...]
Will the last one to leave, please turn out the light.
Posted in Derbyshire, Environment, Flora and Fauna, Found objects, Garden, Nature, Photography, Thoughts, Weather on October 18, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Summers floral remnants
There is no doubt they days are getting shorter, which is, on the whole, a bit of a gloomy thought; although it resulted in an unexpected bonus the other morning, when I took Spud out at about 7am, I watched a pipistrelle bat swoop past, before popping neatly into a hole in the [...]
The 3rd Friday in October
Posted in Boundries, Derbyshire, Dogs, Drystone walls, Environment, Farming, Field studies, Landscape, Photography, Stone, Trees on October 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Found Object
Posted in Autumn, Boundries, Derbyshire, Environment, Farming, Found objects, Landscape, Nature, Peak District National Park, Photography, Thoughts, Waters Edge, Weather on October 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I went looking for a sunrise and some decorative morning mist
and got distracted by a lost bracelet glinting in the sun, I’m easily distracted.
Anyroad, here is the mist, curling up off the water and rolling off down the valley.
Our very own little weather system.
Beautiful Day
Posted in Derbyshire, Drystone walls, Environment, Farming, Landscape, Peak District National Park, Photography, Thoughts, Weather on October 14, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The weather over the last couple of days has been beautiful; crisp, with glassy blue skies. Not a breath of wind, so still that every sound seems amplified, the barking dog across the valley, the honking geese on the reservoir, the rata- tat- tat call of a wren weaving through the drystone wall. The frost [...]
On Reflection
Posted in Derbyshire, Environment, Landscape, Nature, Peak District National Park, Photography, Thoughts, Trees, Waters Edge on October 9, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I have a very low tolerance level of fools, I’m told it’s to do with the fact I’m a northern lass. Of late I’ve spent far too long trying to reason with one particular gang of fools, yesterday I gave up the fight and gave the bugle call to the cavalry , they saddled [...]
Inevitable
Posted in Dogs, Environment, Photography, Pond life, Thoughts, Waters Edge on October 8, 2009 | 9 Comments »
‘Look Spud if you charge around like that,’
‘it is only a matter of time before you fall in the pond.’
‘See I told you so.’
He was a little startled, but he scrambled out easily, you might just be able to see the chain of water droplets, coming off his tale, in this [...]



