Sorry I haven’t been on for a while, had a week in Cornwall seeing my sister, just a tad warmer than up here. On the way home passing through Cumbria we experienced the heavy rain that caused last nights flooding, the M6 was hard going with a lot of surface water on the roads.
All a bit different to the inch of snow we woke up to this morning. Our roads soon cleared with some lovely sunshine warming us up to zero degrees C, so at least no need for the snow plough. went for a walk up the hills with the misses & of course the camera. So glad I did because it was a cracking light, well at least going up the road was, coming back clouded over a bit & we are forecast some more snow tonight.
All shots taken from the road, the first being one of the many lone Birch trees that just about hang on throughout the windy & exposed terrain that is Glen Tilt.
The second is one of my favourite row of trees, this horizon used to be covered in trees, but they felled the wood & left just these, which I find makes them very photogenic.
The third shows how well the Glen & Munro’s are now covered, in the middle of the shot you can just make out the barns that are part of the remote farm (the same one as in the first shot) called Menzie (pronounced Menaa).
The last two were a bit of a surprise, on a very distant hill was this herd of Red Deer stags, they most probably have been there since after the rut, but are (until the snow comes) normally well camouflaged. Hinds & Stags separate after the rut & even larger groups of stags are not uncommon up here. No doubt that by the end of the winter you will be fed up of my stag shots, as they come fairly close to us on the other side of the Glen.
