Friday, 1 January 2016

New Year Yomp

Happy New Year.

It is good to burn off the Christmas food with a good walk. We walked from Ainstable to Armathwaite.
A knitted crib and angels.
Nativity scene
Flying angels 

Ainstable parish church is very pretty with a quaint lynch gate.
Beautiful wooden gates

Inside the church.
A lovely rood screen

The viaduct of the Settle - Carlisle railway line.
Stunning scenery

A view across the fields.
Armathwaite in the distance

At this time of year sheep are fed on turnips.
Sheep mongst turnips

The walk took us along the river Eden.
The water flood level was 3.6 metres high. You can see the debris in the trees

A dovecote at the entrance to Armathwaite.
Two turtle doves and no partridge

Herdwick sheep in the field.
Happy Herdys

Friendly donkeys.
Double donkey

The Fox and Pheasant is a pub in Armathwaite.
Look at the Fox's face?

Ducks a dabbling.
Cluck cluck

One of the Eden Benchmarks 'Vista Game' by Graeme Mitcheson.
Can you see a pair of trousers?
Have you lost a cap?

Some plants are flowering at the wrong time of the year.
Winter jasmine.
Yellow jasmine
Hawthorn.
Hawthorne in leaf in January

An eagle keeping watch.
Eagle eyed

An old fashioned roundabout in Carlisle.
Such wonderful colours.

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