A trip to the West Country

We are on a little jaunt down to the West Country. We left home yesterday morning, driving down through the glorious border country to Carlisle. We took a detour off the M6 to visit Sedbergh, a small town nestled in amongst the most westerly hills of the Yorkshire Dales. The motorway is out of sight in this photo, running along down below the hill in the foreground. The hills are the Yorkshire Dales

lying in herringbone folds away into the distance.

The southern tip of the Lake District is in the far distance of this photograph.

Sedbergh is in the Yorkshire Dales, in the county of Cumbria, with a Lancashire postcode! It's a lovely little place, home of Sedbergh School, and we enjoyed a quiet walk round before carrying on with our journey south.

The town is surrounded by hills, rising up behind the houses to the north, visible in the distance the south.

We left Sedbergh and drove back down a remarkably quiet M6 to our overnight pit stop at the Travel Lodge, just south of the M6 Toll turn-off. Tilly slept well!

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In a vase on Monday - colour

The intense colours in my vase this week come from nasturtiums, sweetpeas and a single glorious zinnia! Their beauty and love of life speak for themselves and need no further words from me! Enjoy!

Early morning light

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By the time I have walked about four miles, my toes are screaming at me - it's the arthritis, you see. One of the joys of being that little bit older than I was. However, for a long time, I have been keen to walk along the beaches, and follow the coastal path, between Gullane and North Berwick. So, having worked out the tide times, I decided today was the day, and off we went. Below is our starting point, the bay at Gullane. It's a lovely beach, very popular with dog walkers. This is looking east, the direction Tilly and I were going to take. Looking back, up the Forth, the unmistakable bulk of Arthur's Seat, and Edinburgh's skyline, just clear enough to see. For most of the walk, there is the choice between wandering along a series of beaches, or following a path along the top of each. There's no denying it, at heart I am a shell-seeker. I have loads of shells at home. We lived on one of the out islands in the Bahamas for a just over a year, ...

the running wave

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