Taken a few steps and a few moments away from yesterday's photo, the mist cleared . . .

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The lovely lane to Winton

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Beautiful conditions last Friday, with freezing fog rolling in, hoar frost and blue skies until sunset

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Hartley Castle farm appearing out of the fog

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Outhgill's very own solarium? 😉

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I thought snow blown onto a tree trunk looked like an Andy Goldsworthy creation, and then visited one of his actual pieces - one of nine pinfold cairns in the area

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A stunning day of frost, freezing fog and sunshine

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Looking south and north at Outhgill yesterday

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Oak leaves hanging on

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Vernacular architecture, and if Instagram hasn't darkened the shadows too much, Cautley Spout waterfall in the background 

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This house (or these houses?) Is adjacent to the former Stainmore railway line, near Smardalegill viaduct. Even though it shouldn't, it does seem to fit in the landscape...

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Kicking myself for not moving a centimetre to the right so the rosehip separated from the stem

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I thought some of the patterns made by these pine needles were like some oriental script.

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Just a couple more beeches to go for this year. . .

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'Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife'

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The stoop on the right is being swallowed by the ash tree....

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I have a theory that some stone gateposts are repurposed standing stones. . . .

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Got a bit carried away with the beech trees this year . . .

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Life's a beech in Kirkby Stephen 😊

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An hour of sun near Little Ormside

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The sheep were nicely arranged until one caught sight of me - then they panicked, ran away and I had to take a different shot

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"And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days"

RIP Dylan Thomas, died 70 years ago today

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An hour in the presence of the remaining stone in the middle of the henge. Time slips away trying to imagine what rituals were conducted in this special place

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Grateful for a rare hour of sunshine yesterday 

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Peak autumn.... Can you spot the red squirrel?

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Grey gloomy cloud hides Mallerstang Edge and isolates the trees

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Celebrating the last sunny day - exactly a week ago near Rookby Scarth

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A busy day in Mallerstang. Sheep penned to be administered their flu & fluke treatments, and the 11.53 Kirkby Stephen to Leeds trundles through, under a mist-covered Wild Boar fell

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The public footpath is on the other side of the dry stone wall, but luckily the farmer was around so I asked permission to go into the field to photograph & get close to this magnificent veteran sycamore and the elegant ash

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Four trees, 63 sheep . . .

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