Day 319
November 15, 2010The crisp early mornings are providing some nice images.
The pretty yellow flower which shouldn’t really still be around has fallen on a frozen part of our slate patio. The morning sun just illuminates it beautifully.
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The crisp early mornings are providing some nice images.
The pretty yellow flower which shouldn’t really still be around has fallen on a frozen part of our slate patio. The morning sun just illuminates it beautifully.
Apologies for the late postings. We have revamped our home network and it has caused disruption to normal service. The photography has continued, just the processing/posting has been delayed.
A beautiful early morning sunrise in our village church graveyard. Where else would you be first thing in the morning ????
Our local pub (one of seven, for a population of 2,000!) has bee closed for a few months now. This is a circumstance of consumer economics and perhaps over zealous rental demands by the brewery.
The good news is that it is due to reopen very soon.
This is turning into a bit of a local theme, but the early mornings have been just beautiful. This is the road just behind our house.
A day out walking in the the Peak District. It was a grey misty day at home but the weather forecast had predicted a very small part of Derbyshire would have sunshine and it concided with our walking plans.
Without any high hopes of the forcast to be accurate we dressed for a foggy wet walk.
To our delight the forecasters were spot on accurate and we basked in sunshine all day, with spectacular views of mist filled valleys.
The High Peak Trail is a 17-mile (27.4 km) trail for walkers, cyclists and horse riders in the Peak District. Running from Dowlow near Buxton, to High Peak Junction, Cromford , it follows the trackbed of the former Cromford and High Peak Railway, which was completed in 1831 to carry minerals and goods between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge.
Closure of the line occurred during the Beeching era, with the first section of the line closing in 1963 (i.e. the Middleton Incline), with full closure in 1967.
In 1971 the Peak Park Planning Board and Derbyshire County Council bought the largest part of the trackbed and, in partnership with the Countryside Commission, adapted it for its current leisure use. The trail has a crushed limestone surface which makes it ideal for all users, including wheelchair use, assisted by level access onto the trail at various points along its route.
The High Peak Trail is now a national route of the National Cycle Network.
The elevated nature of the trail (the highest part of the line is at Ladmanlow, at a height of 1,266 ft/385.9 m) affords many splendid views across the countryside. However, these higher sections can also be very exposed in poor weather. The original railway incorporated a number of inclines at its northern and southern ends, and whilst much of the trail is fairly level, these sections are naturally steeper.
The damp and warm days have been very good for the moss and lichens.
All day today spent revising our home network and TV’s. Out with the analogue and in with digital.
These little beauties are very high quality interconnect cables for analogue signals. They cost a weeks groceries 5 years ago and by their construction ensured a high quality picture..
The digital replacements are all about bits (zeros and ones) and really couldn’t care too much about the cable quality as long as it makes a connection!
It’s progress but these engineering works of art are now longer in demand.
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