I am so glad it's Friday. Only three more days left in school...hooray!
I promised to show you a walk we did locally last weekend. First let me give you some background information.
We have lived in this house for seven years. We managed to sell our other house very quickly and we had to rent somewhere for seven months before we found this house and moved in.
So Hubby found a one bedroom cottage on a hill in the area we wanted to move to. It was part of a very very old farm. The cottage was once a barn attached to the farmhouse. One day I will scan some photos of the cottage and interior to show you but last weekend we went for a walk passed the cottage.
First we parked the car near to Ringstone Edge Reservoir.
This is the back of the farm. Our cottage is the cleaned up bit on the left.
It was always windy at the cottage and this day was no different!
We walked back towards the car
It was built between 1886 1nd 1898 and is listed.
It was built for Wakefield City Council.
The area is thought to be Bronze age and a stone circle is reported to be beneath the reservoir.
Yorkshire Water have made it into a Conservation Area for the Little Ringed Plover.
It has it's own blog here but it is no longer updated but worth a look all the same.
As you can see we were lucky with the weather that day.
Not so last Friday
It was lovely and sunny as I left work and headed up the hill towards home.
I sat in the car and watched as the rain came towards me along the road in front of me!
I decided to get home
I saw on the local news when I got home that poor Hebden Bridge got it bad that afternoon.
I am not sure what is happening with this weather. I do know that everyone is very fed up with it though.
New artwork posted on my Emporium Blog here.
Stunning photos Lyn. I am sure that you will have lots of sun over the coming weeks. I am willing it!!! x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures of such beautiful countryside. I do hope to revisit. I love the creamy rose, too. Such a beauty. While you are having unusually wet weather, most of the US is dry, much of it suffering drought. Bloody hot. 90s+ F. So did you buy the cottage? Hope you show photos. Have a good week end.
ReplyDeleteLovely pics, I know that area quite well as my daughter lives near Huddersfield.
ReplyDeleteI;m with Ann (above) bloody hot here in Canada...90s everyday, sometimes with humidX pushing into the 100s.
It is so lovely to see your side of the world!
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ReplyDeleteWonderful Photography!!! Your pictures are always just spectacular!! Would you mind if I occasionally "pinned" some on Pinterest? I have a "photography" board.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful part of the country you live in. The weather is very strange isn't it - how it can be fine and sunny and then suddenly the rain comes yet again. Thanks for sharing your lovely walk, I loved the photo of the cat on the steps.
ReplyDeleteThe rain last Friday was insane. I was so glad my parents were staying - they did the school run for me to save me getting a toddler soaked in the deluge. It always seems to rain extra hard at 3.15! We break up next Friday and I am looking forward to end of term, and I'm a parent not a teacher.
ReplyDeleteReally great shot of the cat in the sun on the old stone steps.
Hi Lyn,
ReplyDeleteHope the weather improves when school breaks up! You have captured the storm so well and your other photographs on your walk are wonderful. It must have been a lovely setting to live in nice weather! I like your new header, one of my favourite flowers, I can almost smell them!
Sarah x
You are having storms and we are having droughts. What is wrong with our world? Hope we both can enjoy the rest of the summer.
ReplyDeletephotos are so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI loved looking at your photos and I love how you captured the transition from blue sky to a very charged, grey one.
ReplyDeleteWhat a very pretty part of the world you live init looks so very peaceful.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos - I especially like the flower with the bees in it. We are in a drought and you are getting too much rain. It predicted rain this weekend but so far, we've had a few drops and that is all.
ReplyDeleteLovely pics as usual. Cat going up steps is a treasure and the last one reminds me of paintings by a bloke called Grimshaw. He was really good at painting darkness, wet weather and small lights.I can't afford any but I'll try copying one soon.
ReplyDeleteHope School hols are better weather than we've been having. I always used to collapse with a lurking bug the first week of the summer hols.
Cheers Gillian
Stunning photos as ever Lyn. The Love Shack was on a campsite called Yapham Holds Farm and I can highly recommend it. I bet you were like Kathy and Heathcliffe in that cottage! xxxxx
ReplyDeleteAs usual, wonderful photos! I love Lucy's photo! We're having scorching hot weather, around 39-40°C, which sometimes is really too much!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your summer holidays!
Annalisa
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I'm a bit late reading this so you'll have broke up from school, yay!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos.