Eskdale Green
Took
Roydog out for a short stroll last night, 9.15 pm and a cuckoo still calling
from Muncaster Fell... a week of walks on the Screes, Illgill Head, Whin Fell,
Mitredale Forest, Eskdale Green to Penny Hill Farm (and back), few miles around
Ennerdale, another river walk and Muncaster Fell, couple of quick dips in the
Esk ...
the
scent of May blossom, bluebells and pine in the woods along the Esk, cuckoos
calling up and down the valley and across the fells - maybe three or four - a
woodpecker drill drill drilling away as we came off the fell side,
any
amount of pipits and stonechats, larks calling, a pair of goldfinches, exotic
in the strong wind blowing in from the west across Ennerdale water....
and
a sheep gather off the fells near Penny Hill Farm, "away away! come come
come! ayeayeayeayeaye!!! whistles to the sheepdogs, yows beh-ing, their black
lambs bleating an answer,
all
this in deep sunshine and blue raced cloudscape over the pink sparkling stone
of Eskdale granite ... back to the cottage and the yellow hum of laburnum'd
bees
Geraldine
Green
19.5.2017
copyright of both words and photos: Geraldine Green
...gorgeous word...laburnum'd...lets get that in the OD!!!love it. x
ReplyDeleteThanks Gerry! I love playing with language. Once had this in a poem: "They Fred Astaired round the neighbourhood" gx
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