View from the A6

I needed to get a pile of Charlie's stuff loaded in the car - she's leaving Edinburgh, this week - and make a fairly prompt departure, this morning, as I wanted to get into the office for one-thirty. Everything went according to plan and the car was stacked and on the road by ten o'clock.

In the interests of expediency, I decide to follow the satnav's quickest route back, which I knew would mean missing my two favourite routes: the Moffat road and the A7. It did, however, take me through Biggar, which is a pleasant little town, and then, later, I was delighted when we left the M6 at Shap to take a section of the A6 down to Kendal.

It was on the way down this last part of my journey that I pulled over and took this shot. I wasn't sure what that straight edge running across the lower part of the photo was; a railway line? A dam? A quick look at Google Earth later own revealed it was the latter (or something similar), stretching across the north-eastern edge of Wet Sleddale Reservoir.