A short walk around Aykley Heads
Mar. 14th, 2021 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustYesterday afternoon the sunshine lured us out; durham_rambler took me up to Aykley Woods, to show me where he had been on Parish Council business earlier in the week. This is the area around County Hall (due for redevelopment) and the Police Headquarters, and an enormous amount of new housing, but there is also some open land on the edge of the city, and ot was a joy to be somewhere that was not deeply familiar. The sunshine wasn't reliable - it was cold, and occasionally there was rain in the air - but it had its moments:
No flowers, yet - some rather grubby catkins, but I don't think this is what people mean when they talk about signs of green growth:
This being Durham, there was, at one point, a distant view of the cathedral, grey against the grey sky, not a successful picture. Have an owl, instead:
Then we came home and made a pot of tea.
durham_rambler took me up to Aykley Woods, to show me where he had been on Parish Council business earlier in the week. This is the area around County Hall (due for redevelopment) and the Police Headquarters, and an enormous amount of new housing, but there is also some open land on the edge of the city, and ot was a joy to be somewhere that was not deeply familiar. The sunshine wasn't reliable - it was cold, and occasionally there was rain in the air - but it had its moments:No flowers, yet - some rather grubby catkins, but I don't think this is what people mean when they talk about signs of green growth:
This being Durham, there was, at one point, a distant view of the cathedral, grey against the grey sky, not a successful picture. Have an owl, instead:
Then we came home and made a pot of tea.
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Date: 2021-03-15 10:06 am (UTC)They also green up at this time of year!
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Date: 2021-03-15 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-16 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-17 10:45 am (UTC)