Legend of the Moor

Quite a lot of Dartmoor looks much like this. Some early writers wrote of its fearsome reputation. Notably, Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes classic The Hound of the Baskervilles in which the fictitious Grimpen Mire was the haunt of the infamous, diabolical hound. The only hounds I saw today were well-behaved and far less terrifying. Still, when the mists come down and darkness closes in, the moor is still a place to tread carefully and treat with respect! When I took this image today the scene was briefly illuminated by a narrow window of weak sunlight which had pierced the grey, mantle of cloud, picking out the intimate detail of the landscape which can look so uniform from a distance.