Yorkshire Life

Happy Yorkshire Day!

What better way to celebrate than with a fabulous early morning walk of 5.5 miles around Oxenhope. Lots of fabulous views all round as we climbed out of the village but it had to be this one as it is my first close up of Yorkshire heather this year. I spotted a few Yorkshire flags along the way. One above a row of cottages and one at the Oxenhope crown green bowling club.
Here on this crag we are on the edge of the moors looking back down to Oxenhope in the Worth Valley below. Soon after this a grouse burst out of the heather with the usual loud squawk that they make.
There is all life here:
lovely blooming heather and Rose Bay Willow Herb; blackberries and bilberries; lots of wildlife; sheep and calves; walking ladies and dogs and in the valley below great Yorkshire folk getting on with their daily lives. There are tourists too as we are near to Bronte country and the home of the Railway Children, each having their own walking route and of course the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, where much of the filming was done and this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of it's reopening.

Thanks Wilsden Walker for the lift - you can see her blip view here https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2471322610047123615 and another great view in the panorama extra. Thank you Val too for leading the walk.

Pilates was cancelled this afternoon so I actually got some painting done! Always good to start putting on rather than taking off. Didn't mind doing it after such a great outdoor start to the day.
(Last year's Yorkshire Day was a heather walk too with a pregnant daughter Grace on Harden Moor)