Is it even a country lane if it doesn't have grass growing in the middle, a barn halfway along and hedges full of blackbirds? I could walk for miles on the lanes at this time of year (and frequently do), just ambling and listening and breathing in the calm, still evening air as the sun sets. Please, May, take your sweet time, don't rush by.
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In the last week it feels as if Spring has finally flluttered into the hills and dales of the Peak District. The lanes are filled with blackbirds, the moors ring with the curlewโs song, the trees are proudly bearing their brand new green on every twig, and there are daffodils in all the verges. These weeks are some of the best of the whole year for me; when Nature feels poised, teetering, on the cusp of spilling over, but with all that promise still to come, still ahead of us.
๐ Peak District, England
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Winter Settles in at the Blackrock Cottage, Glencoe, Highlands, Scotland, Ian Nicholas!๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ A Crofter's cottage from the 1800s, it is now home to the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club!
Morning everyone I hope you are well. My view from a walk along Loughrigg Fell, looking down towards Loughrigg Tarn and the Langdale Valley. Have a great day.
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Morning everyone I hope you are well. What a difference a little bit of light makes. View from Peggy's Bridge looking along Warnscale Beck towards Buttermere and beyond. Have a great day.
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Layer upon layer of land intersects, weaving wooded valleys together to form a ribbon of green stretching into the distant hills. And Hathersage church, like a little boat adrift in a sea of trees, catching the light of the early autumn sun.
From a little vantage point below Stanage Edge, you can sit and watch the Derwent Valley stretch out before you.
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In the foothills of Kinder Scout, the highest peak in the Peak District, you'll find the steep steps of Jacob's Ladder, leading to or from the village of Edale. It's a bit of a tricky trek whether you're going up or down, but it's always lovely to rest awhile in this pretty spot at the bottom, where a 17th Century stone bridge spans the River Noe. The bridge is a Grade II listed structure on what was once an important packhorse route over the moorland between Hayfield and Edale, used from medieval times into the 18th Century. At its narrowest point the walls of the bridge are only 27 inches apart.
This is a really special place to me as it's one of my very first memories of the Peak District, when my parents brought me here as a small child to climb Jacob's Ladder. Of course in my mind I had pictured an actual ladder going up the hill, and to be honest I still feel slightly short-changed that it's only a path!
๐ Jacob's Ladder, Peak District, England