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12/01/2019
10/19/2019
10/14/2019
Woodland pictures from early October
The views are changing daily around here, leaves are falling fast and waterfalls and streams are overflowing. Suspect next weeks view of this same walk will be completely different again!
Rainy Day Elan Valley
this Dam above is Pen y Garreg Dam - I think it is probably the most photographed out of all four main dams as its sat in amongst stunning scenic views and the road curves around it! You can go on open days up the inside wall and in to that tower! If you are much braver than me.
looking just like a bridge with a road on, this is Garreg Ddu Dam, a completely submerged dam. There were two flooded valleys to cause this reservoir, and numerous buildings and houses. I find it a little eerie if I think about that too long. In fact over 100 people were 'moved' and rehoused in the Elan valley for the building of all the reservoirs. Two mighty fine large country houses were also submerged, both of which were connected to the poet Shelley.
The dams are beautiful, amazing feats of engineering from back in the early 1890s, but the countryside around here is something else. The river is gorgeous and the autumn colours merely accentuate it.
08/27/2019
07/23/2019
Sunset one Tuesday
when you've been away in hot London City, and you are a little tired of buildings and pavements and people and traffic, then its very very good to come home.
07/07/2019
Whilst the sun shines...
Love watching the balers. Hoovering up all the hay and spitting out huge bales behind as it goes along.
It is one of those things you see that makes you go; goodness where's the year gone already. Whizzing along the months it seems.
Sweet sunny July.
06/17/2019
Climbed a new hill...
Am pretty sure I could go on a different footpath/track every single day for years and still never walk the same place twice. Of course its not quite like that - I have my favourites that I repeat, and I am never quite sure what's at the top of some 'new' hill walks, so wait until I have someone I can coerce into coming along take with me to help with the dogs. Finally this weekend we hit a new trail and were delighted at the view and whole new area it led to. Okay I was delighted, pretty sure the big kids were nonstop complaining about the drizzle and/or the steep hill part. but still - new hill conquered!
06/16/2019
incoming weather...
Until I lived here I had never been 'above the weather'. Or beside it, or watched it cross the valley in front of you. Now it happens all the time. Because I am spending half my life up a hill or ten. The sky is awesome, and the rain pours down 'just over there' and then you can watch it move along.
