The rowan in our garden has no leaves left at all and yet I find that I haven’t posted any autumn leaf pictures. The following pictures then are gleaned from two walks in Eaves Wood earlier in t… more →
Beating The Boundsbeatingthebounds wrote 4 weeks ago: The rowan in our garden has no leaves left at all and yet I find that I haven’t posted any aut … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 1 month ago: …finding things is one of the purest of earthly joys. E. V. Lucas from the essay On Finding Th … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 2 months ago: Leaves are of more various forms than the alphabets of all languages put together Henry David Thorea … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 2 months ago: A lovely weekend with a house full of guests. A house so full in fact that some were sleeping in the … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 2 months ago: Out again in the sunshine with the boys. Their avowed intent – to walk to the Pepperpot, a 15 … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 5 months ago: In point of fact it was two – but that would have spoilt the alliteration. Fresh from my moth … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 7 months ago: It’s not so much what you see as what you are seeped in. Alice Oswald This quotation comes for … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 7 months ago: With a little free time yesterday afternoon, I decided to head off in the general direction of the P … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 8 months ago: Asked about how we should continue our walk, A wanted to visit ‘the limestone on the way back … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 8 months ago: True to form, March has brought windy and changeable weather. Snow had been forecast for this weeken … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 9 months ago: Our walk on Sunday, a circuit of Haweswater, was always destined to be gently paced, since S was wal … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 9 months ago: B in Eaves Wood yesterday. A short stroll most notable for the great delight which B took in collect … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 10 months ago: After two trips out on Saturday, to Kirkby Lonsdale and Leighton Moss, on Sunday morning S and I wer … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 11 months ago: Managed to get out for brief forays in Eaves Wood on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day, which were b … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 11 months ago: Perhaps I should be embarrassed to admit to getting lost on my own home patch, but it made for one o … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 12 months ago: I pass this diminutive ruined cottage in Eaves Wood regularly on my walks but have never got … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 1 year ago: As you may have gathered by now, I snapped away with abandon on Sunday, taking photos of just about … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 1 year ago: My paean to leaves was inevitably partial and incomplete. Some of our ferns caught my attention on S … more →
beatingthebounds wrote 1 year ago: We’ve reached that time of year when I generally set off for work in the dark and arrive home … more →