
(12th September 2024, 12.5 miles) The following morning, and after an excellent, large breakfast requiring intense, uninterrupted attention, we prepared to leave Darrowby/Grassington and packed away our overnight stuff ready for collection. I had arranged for Sherpa Van to transport our two wheelie bags between overnight stops. This meant having the bags packed, zipped and […]

(11th September 2024 – 15½ miles) We had last been in Skipton two years previously. Back then, Jim and I were hiking the Dales High Way – a smashing long distance footpath which I have yet to write up and post to The Walking Gardener. Sorry. But hey. Enough self flagellation. On this our second […]

100 miles on foot through Yorkshire and Cumbria In 1643, the 60 year old Lady Anne Clifford inherited the lands which should have been hers at the death of her father 38 years earlier – but instead were grabbed by her uncle. But even 38 years late, her inheritance was one worth waiting for. As […]
I also have one of these, but mine has not rewarded me with a bloom. Amazing color, great photographs!
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Yes it was Faisal. Cheered me up on a wet and insignificant morning.
Hi Shirl, yes it does.
Dave
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Twinkle, twinkle 😉
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Wonderful and unexpected, Dave.
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You're talking about the plant, Elaine, I take it?
Yes Boys. The flower does come from a rather unprepossessing blob, doesn't it?
Hi WW and Kris – indeed!
Hey Stacy (I can be so very American). The shimmering orange is a little unreal isn't it especially without a blazing August sun to ignite it. And yep, that's the new lens. You're so preceptive!
Janet, you've now got me wondering whether I could create something out of plastic, give it a made up name and present it on here. Wonder whether anyone would twig? Might try.
Dave
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P says it looks plastic… are you sure you didn't stick it on? Lovely colour.
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What a wonderful, sunny color–the shimmer on the petals is just gorgeous. It's kind of hard to believe in, though, in the way that flamingos are hard to believe in–too many laws of nature being broken there.
Did you take the photos with your new lens?
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Absolutely delightful!
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Great photo. What a strange plant but such a cheerful little flower.
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It never fails to amaze how such a weird looking plant produce such a classically beautiful flower 🙂
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Weird and wonderful.
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