Friday 9 January

Dry & Cool

Meg heading for the steps

These roots are right at the side of the steps - I have no doubt that at sometime they were used to get up to the field and path before the paths were altered.

The weir from the steps

Take Care

Tuesday 26 November

Cool morning, our walk took us through Dry Bones to Duxbury then the trek home

Hard Fern - Blechnum spicant - we have only found it in two places in the valley up to now, this is the biggest patch

River Yarrow

Plenty of these small bridges along the Yarrow

A bit of colour with this bridge

This one spans the Yarrow so is more substantial - Bing, Billy & Toots are way ahead of us - Meg, who knows where she is, she does her own thing following her nose :)

From the Stile into Duxbury Woods, notice the three pathfinders 

The Big Beech Roots at the side of the path

Take Care

Wednesday 9 September

Warmer & dryer today.

Beech Mast are opening, got a few in my pocket for rambling snacks.

This Elder was turning the most wonderful colours.
Found these in a Beech tree cavity.

The tree had been set on fire earlier in the year.

The colour of the leaf was eye catching - I do not know if the Hairy Gall was causing the problem.

Heron - seems to a favourite spot for him.

Speckled Wood - looks a little worn.

We seem to have a lot of wasps this year, I watch them at home and they have cleared the whole of my Nasturtiums - not a caterpillar to be seen, they carried them off. Natures own pest control, not that I think the caterpillars were a pest on my plants - although I use to think it when they stripped my cauliflowers & cabbages on my veggie plot.

Plenty of big spiders about.

A redundant stile - it's in better condition than some modern ones.

I love these root steps, not used now but I am sure they were years ago before the new steps were put in, Children still enjoy the climb, it leads to a stile and also the path to Dry Bones.

The weir it's still not been repaired - the recent rainfall has caused the water to flood over the weir.