Photography
Nothing says “End of summer” more clearly than fingers stained from picking blackberries from the hedgerows in Sussex on August Bank Holiday Saturday. We picked just enough for bramble jam for our own use and left plenty for the birds.
Lowgill Viaduct in the North Yorkshire Dales looking splendid in the evening light. Photo from the moving train en route to London Euston. The viaduct used to carry the branch line to Sedburgh, which was closed to passenger traffic in 1954 and the tracks were finally removed in 1967.
Droving sheep to Hestan Island at low tide in Auchencairn Bay on the Solway Firth. There’s a local guide who knows these mud flats but nonetheless it’s a hazardous enough operation from the farming point of view as to require four horsemen and at least five dogs to drove about fifty head of sheep. The land bridge between Hestan Rack and Almorness Point lasted for over an hour while we watching. All the horsemen returned and as my understanding is that sheep are experts at escaping, I don’t quite understand why they stay on the island at the next low tide. Maybe there’s a shepherd camping there.
After days of boring blue skies, the ever-changing cloud forest is back in this morning’s view of Skiddaw (931 m.).
Dawn and sunrise over low tide at Balcary Bay on the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway.
