Purple Thistle. Scale Hill. Crummock Water. Blue Sky. Summer Days. ☀️
Common Sundew. Found on heaths and moors, sphagnum bogs. I know it as the fly catcher plant whose leaves have long sticky hairs that curve inward to catch insects. As a child I loved to find these wildflowers on the boggy lake side of Melbreak. Because how CLEVER are they! And how deadly AND beautiful. I found this particular one on Low Fell whilst the whole valley was quiet and England 🏴 were playing Sweden 🇸🇪 in the World Cup. And I thought these leaves are like Goalkeepers Hands....#makethosesaves #pickford #commonsundew #droseraceae #redandwhite #wildflowers #lowfell #loweswater #lakedistrict #beautifulanddeadly
SCALE HILL. Today the tarmac is melting but it isn’t like that every day. #seasons #summer #winter#autumn #summertimeinthelakes #westisbest #dayslikethese #happydays #luckytolivehere
There’s something thrilling about a plane....#summertime #plane #aircraft #raf #flypast (thank you!) #happytoseeyouupthere #manoeuvres #flyinginthesky #lowfell #scalehill #loweswater #lakedistrict
This is just a feast of a field for bees and butterflies and soon to be winter feed for hungry cattle. Love the grass when it gets that certain pink shimmer in the distance. The local farmers have been cutting and collecting the fields in super quick time this month. #hotjune #summertime #summerinthelakes #feastofafield #beesandbutterflies #redclover #buttercup #wildflowers #grasses #haymeadow #farming #loweswater #leafylake #lakedistrict
The lovely Frances Rolleston Fountain is near County Corner in Keswick. This drinking water fountain was erected in 1865 in memory of Frances Rolleston a scholar who helped the people of Keswick. And the water 💦 is good. #noplastic #drinkingwater #drinkingfountain #slate #francesrolleston #keswick #lakedistrict #whyarenttheremoreofthese #restoredandrevitalised ‘Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. John IV 14’
Last week my sister and I travelled with our sons and my daughter to Arnhem in Holland specifically to see some of the places which relate to Operation Market Garden. The book When Dragons Flew, The 1st Battalion The Border Regiment 1949-45 and Major & Mrs Holt’s map and book helping us to understand this part of history which involved many Cumbrian men. ‘Cpl Thomas Elgar 3603439 A Coy Aged 27 is known to have been fatally wounded when clearing the Dennenoord House (Benedendorpsweg) from enemy personnel. He was taken to a nearby RAP where he subsequently died of his wounds. No known grave’ ‘The Border Regiment/Airborne/24th September 1944/Beloved Son of John and Margaret/ Always Remembered/ Forever a Hero’ #CarlisleBoy #locallads #whendragonsflew #borderregiment #airborne #oosterbeek #oosterbeekairbornecemetery #arnhem #holland #netherlands #hotelmolendal #operationmarketgarden #abridgetoofar #secondworldwar #cwgc #redroses #rememberthefallen #foreverahero #belovedson #cumbrian #cumbrians #farfromhome #pilgrimage #understandinghistory
Sunday blooms....#loweswater #lakedistrict #againstthewall and #goingstrong
The local farmer likes to create different gate stoops and this metal kaleidoscope is one of them. #creativegateways #gatefurniture #countrysidedecor #rurallife #cows #lakedistrict
