The Desert

I rode my 50k off-road round York route this week. After all the rain of the winter it is almost unbelievable to see how dry it has become so quickly. The aridity, the greedy destruction of hedges and the high wind has led to dust storms being common in the east of England [the train down to London can be quite bizarre across the Lincolnshire flatlands, with dust obscuring the view as if we were making tracks across the Gobi desert]. This is a field near York where the track was obscured by soil blown from the adjacent fields.