the
laKes - elterwater
Apologies for yet another
off-theme page, but the Lakes in Autumn colours was not capable
of being resisted as I was going up there to visit Rosie, anyway.
This sycamore by the roadside
at Ings village was surely to be a taster of those glorious colours?
Not so when I viewed the
tops from the fell road above Orrest. The Pikes should be looming
to the right but only their shoulder peers dimly through the cloud.
Lower down, looking across
the valley to Troutbeck, things seemed better again.
Fortified with food and
a fine pint of Bluebird things still seemed OK, if a bit on the
grey side, as I set off through the village.
Even at the turn-off, up
Nanny Lane, there was only a thin mist creeping over the ridge.
However there was absolutely no opportunity of improving on the
shots I already have from Rosie's Place, the cloud and drizzle
had closed in so much.
Heading south on the lightly
used path down the ridge, at the upper edge of Skellghyll Wood,
I came across this odd-looking structure of a drystone pillar
some 8-10 ft high closely surrounded on all sides, except for
an access opening, by a similar wall at some 2 ft distance. It
could be a high walled sheep pen but for the pillar. The pillar
would make sense unenclosed. But, together ... ?
The Lowwood Hotel complex
on Lake Windermere seen in the mist from the Ambleside-Troutbeck
track.
The effects of the mist,
seen close-up.
The day's dampness was,
surely, not responsible for this late/early/repeated flowering
of this rhododendron ...
... at these cottages near
the end of Robin Lane, Troutbeck.
But it takes more than an
out of season flower to compete with the theatrical statement
of these leaves of Virginia Creeper now at their short colourful
zenith ...
... maybe an azalea competes
on more equal terms.
Heading for 'home', now:
The Britannia, Elterwater and its famous tree.
But this is 'home' for the
next two nights, the original Elterwater Hall, now the Eltermere
Country Hotel with ...
... a delightful 'traditional
home-made' cuisine, and a wonderful prospect over Elterwater Tarn
from that entrance, seen here the following morning.
Continued
in Part II
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