Wales 1

This is our third year of staying a week in a Forest Holidays cabin. North York Moors, Strathyre in the Highlands, and now Beddgelert in Snowdonia. A new area for me, the location is fantastic, with beautiful rivers, mountains and forests. 

Day one, we walked into the village of Beddgelert on a great path. This shot is of the church yard in the village.

Rowan News

 

After 7 years at BlackRock, Rowan has left and will start working for Oracle in the new year. Meantime she is on a trip to Latin America. She started off at Lima in Peru, and has just completed a five day trek to Machu Picchu.  

Upstairs

Portrait Chair, Prolific Chillies, King of the Mountains Cube, Stool, Amp, Guitar. Sunshine

 

In Museum Gardens

When I moved to York in 1998 this footpath in Museum Gardens had just been opened. Its twists and turns made it ideal for Rowan to play on as she grew. So it is good to see it still in good nick, and the plants growing strong.

 

Stroll 85 iii

Passing through the potteries there were plenty of derelict mills and kilns and factories. Very hard to get a good shot of a bottle kiln, but I loved this.

 

Stroll 85 ii

Iron rich groundwater makes the Trent & Mersey canal look like a theme park, as it enters the two Harecastle Tunnels.

 

Stroll 85 Congleton to Stoke on Trent

Probably as far as I am going down this part of the Stroll, for a while at least. Walked on the Macclesfield Canal and the Trent and Mersey. This shot, which I think could be in next years Open Studios, was taken south of Kidsgrove. The canal disappeared into Harecastle Tunnel and my path took me around Bath Pool. The image is called Heartbreak.