The Lake District

[ladyofastolat]

Agh. Once again, I fail dismally in my "I'll try to be better about posting and reading" resolution. I never even finished writing up our Cotswold Way holiday, and here we are, returned from another trip. I'm still writing it up, though. When in the Lake District, we were trying to remember details of our previous holiday there in 2017, and my then

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[siglinde99]

What wonderful light! You probably wouldn’t have gotten anything nearly so interesting had there been sunshine every day.

[ladyofastolat]

Thanks! A mixture of sunshine and shadow, with dappled contrast on the hills, does indeed create some of the best views. (Well, unless you're wrapped in cloud and can't see anything at all!)

[ylla]

I think your bus driver must have been the same man who once sold me a ticket from a portable machine at Keswick.

Wednesday morning found me at Keswick bus station negotiating with the ticket seller - Could I go to the Thirlmere dam road end, please? Was that Dunmail Raise? No. Wythburn church? No. Park Brow? I didn't think so. King's Head? It would do! - I was eventually on my way, and actually got off the bus at Legburthwaite

[ladyofastolat]

He might have been! :-D We didn't challenge our bus driver this time, and just got on outside Booths in Keswick and asked to be taken to the middle of Grasmere. He could cope with that... and so could we! :-D

[aerodrome1]

Amazing light, lovely photos, very nice travel tales! (I wish we could've seen the Comical Animals, though)

And Swallows & Amazons is very much worth obsessing over.

[ladyofastolat]

Thanks! As a collector of Comical Animals, I'm always disappointed when I'm not allowed to take photos within a historic house. But it was in private ownership, still inhabited, so fair enough.

[leesa_perrie]

We’ve looked outside at bright sunshine whilst hubby’s phone’s weather app tells us it in raining in Derby Right Now! Not our bit of Derby, anyway! So it doesn’t surprise me the Met Office got it wrong!

Lovely photos, even the cloudy ones (in fact, the clouds on Thursday look very dramatic)! Lots of sheep too!! As for the “beady glare of a native”, I suspect the gull was trying to work out if you would a) give it food or b) give it a chance to steal some, lol! I also suspect that the comical bird on the plate didn’t get any food from random passers-by me, hence it’s annoyed expression!

[ladyofastolat]

I think the mountains cause the weather to be even more chaotic than normal, so I do feel for the poor forecasters. Back in the old days, you'd get Ian McCaskill or Michael Fish slapping a picture of a raindrop that covered several counties, and telling us that this would be the days's weather. Now, with the internet, people expect accuracy to the exact place and exact hour.

I do like photographing clouds. The scenery is sometimes the afterthought. :-D

[aerodrome1]

Happy Birthday 2024!