“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going…”
Mary Oliver, fabulous poet
[Snaps (yes PHOTOS, not paintings!) of the streams flowing into Dovestone Reservoir from high up on the moorlands near Ashway Moss]
#PeakDistrict #PeakDistrictEthels #WaterfallWednesday #river #LookClosely #Moorlands

This week’s #WaterfallWednesday snap: Black Hill
Believe it or not this was taken in May! It was VERY soggy to get to, and we were almost stranded by the river crossings getting back to the car.
If your eyes only follow the clearly marked Pennine Way you’d never know it was there.
Look below the soldier’s lump & trig, listen closely and follow the contours of the streams…there you will hear its roar.
It’s a beast and a beauty 😍
#PeakDistrict #PeakDistrictEthels #waterfall #longexposure

Where Wessenden Brook, Shiny Brook & Nearmost Grain meet lies a collection of rocks with the most delicate collection of moss and lichen 😍
Zoom in on your screen for some Marsden #Mosstodon meets tiny #mushtodon! 🔎
iPhone ‘Look Up Plant’ says there’s Azolla Filiculoides, Chilean Plum Yew & Prumnopitys Taxifolia! 🤷‍♀️🧐🤓
Wessenden has beautiful waterfalls, an alpaca farm and the West Nab trig point (one of the #PeakDistrictEthels) is easily accessible from the road.
#peakdistrict #Moss #Moorlands

“My eyes were in my feet…” wrote Nan Shepherd of her Cairngorms rambles.
It’s too easy to be lost in your maps or phone & miss the ordinary wonders around you.
I thought of this whilst rambling near Higger Tor.
For in that moment I captured the sun bursting through the clouds on a fog ridden day & laughed at my childishness for thinking the lichen had made a whale’s face on the rocks of Carl Wark iron fort.
#LookUp #LookCloser #PeakDistrictEthels #peakdistrict #Derbyshire #ItsTheSmallThings

Misty days in magical places are just the best.
Especially early morning hikes in the Peak District.
Here’s a snap from a few weeks ago, climbing the dragon’s back of Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill before the weekend riff faff arrived.
Both marked by the CPRE as ‘Ethels’ - places dedicated to Sheffield countryside activist Ethel Haythornthwaite.
Beautiful geology, mining history, WWII bunkers and a racetrack nearby… What’s not to love.
#peakdistrict #derbyshire #ChromeHill #PeakDistrictEthels