After more than a year of restricted movements due to COVID, I have gone for a walk regularly but nothing I saw to inspire me. I did not take a single photograph in months. On the plus side, the exercise was good. One cold snowy sunny morning this began to change.
I took this photo.
And I thought maybe I will walk this way again and take some more photos.
There is nothing special about this walk. It’s about 5 Km, a circular route from my house taking in a local lane called Ings Lane and some fishing lakes and a disused railway track.
Structures on my walk
There are lots of gates, fences and a railway bridge with crumbling brickwork.
Ageing
Lots of items are showing their age and looking very dilapidated
Maybe this is an old horse box ?
Wild Flowers
Slowly the remnants of the plants from last year and are being replaced by spring flowers
I very pleased with the top left photograph of Butterbur, which is a flower I don’t think I have ever seen before.
The lakes
I haven’t seen anyone fishing at the lakes in the last few months, but there are two resident swans who on this day had no water left to swim in.
Different day and my attention was captured by this alder catkin and the reflections in the water of the lake.
The Barn
Near the beginning of this walk is an old barn stuffed with parafinalia. Some of it clearly farming-related some of it not. There are milk churns, and bailer twine, feed containers and barbed wire, buckets and drainpipes. There are planks and ropes, corrugated pipes and parts of farm equipment, and a pram. I have become a bit obsessed with it. Why is it all there?? How long has it been there?
I was inspired to draw an impression of the junk with pastels.
Which looks great shuffled up and is going to form the basis of my next felt piece.
