November 2014

Smokebush

4 frame panoramic view from Darwen Tower towards the Lake District

 

Autumn colour at the lake

Subterranean

But there is no light underground

Deep below the Yorkshire Moors
No scared flame or flickered match
To shoulder awe and wonders catch
Water was the fuel of enlightenment
To smoulder away the toughest rocks
By slow drip and flow of millennia
Shape cathedral vaulted catacombs
And if a liquid can carve such marvel
Though none could see its work
Then my efforts are not wholly vain
For when you have read these words
Trickles of prose may remain behind

 

 

Stump Cross Caverns is one of Britain's premier show caves, located in Nidderdale on the border of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. We are a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) and is home to some amazing natural formations...

Kestrel

Tynemouth Flowers

Macro close-ups taken by Nick with a canon 650D (what a good camera can do)

Alates

In the heat of the fading day

Three weeks earlier than last year
Alates fly out in honeymoon swarms
To live a whole life in a day
Swallow dodging and making love
Till prisoning earth reclaims the females
Leaving nothing behind but wings and males
Homunculus frogs hop on dusty roads
Move by stealth into the shorter days
Upon these heady green days of heat
And if the world can usurp time so
Am I three weeks older because of it?

Frog

Find the frog in the picture below

Cormorants

A pair of Cormorants in the sunshine around the lake. One is drying wings in the sunshine which is very common with these birds.

The day after solstice

Chemtrails or X Trails (look it up)

We all love a good conspiracy theory

 

Jack Key's reservoir that was

 

 

Dappled

 

Darwen Tower nearing sunset (love the shadow)

Yesterday

 

Black headed Gull

 

 

Robin

 

Wholly Dapplement

 

Roe deer last night

 

Late spring lambs last night

Easter walk

Bilberry Flowers

 

Gorse Flowers

 

Mallard

 

Robbie

 

Heron in Flight

Followers

Spring lambs

Pictures

Swallow

 

Black sheep

 

Black cat

 

Sunset

Canadian Geese