David Swatton's Landscape Posts
April 28, 2020
Chasing an illusion...
Apologies... haven't been on PB for ages. I don't really know why. Mostly I guess due to being in lockdown and hardly going out. The few pictures I have taken…
Dec. 04, 2019
Still a bit wet...
Looking out across the valley from below the castle walls. Three weeks since the heavy rains but still a bit squelchy! Looking fine yesterday in the winter…
Nov. 24, 2019
Just trying to remember...
...a day when it wasn't raining. And to be frank I'm struggling... This was from sometime last week when about ten seconds of late afternoon sunshine lit up the…
Oct. 19, 2019
Sendero del Rio Fraga
One of the nicest walks we had in northern Spain was along a stream and its now derelict but photogenic water mills.
Oct. 17, 2019
The unnatural natural...
The landscape around Orellan in northern Spain was dramatic enough but the mining undertaken by the Romans in the second and third centuries AD radically…
Oct. 12, 2019
Take a walk on the wild side...
Along the wild north coast of Spain. Easy to understand why the Bay of Biscay has such a reputation. The weather changes so quickly. A squall came in from the…
Oct. 10, 2019
Gorge Best...
The Cares gorge links two villages high in the Picos de Europa mountains in northern Spain. The walk along it is probably the best known in Spain. It winds its…
Oct. 02, 2019
Not dead yet - just been away a while...
Just back from northern Spain so I will now proceed to bore everyone senseless with endless posts from the trip. First up is Gaztelugatxe... yes Basque really…
Aug. 24, 2019
Breadwalk walk...
The Breadwalk, the path along the River Teme through Ludlow, is so named because when it was built in the 1800s it was paid for in bread. Local poor labourers…
Aug. 21, 2019
Victorian wonderfulness...
I do love a good bit of over-engineered Victorian industrial architecture. This is the Conisbrough Viaduct as seen from the top of the castle keep.
July 31, 2019
Big sky...
Got to love those clouds - I believe the technical meteorological term is Smoothinox Fluffiflora... or something like that.
July 30, 2019
Twinkle, twinkle...
I live now in one of the least populated areas of the country which means that on clear nights there is little in the way of light pollution which reveals a sky…
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