The Wolds
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 11:25 PM 
I drove across to the East Riding of Yorkshire today - a lovely drive in gorgeous spring sunshine, but oh so frustrating! The light was amazing….which made me want to leap from the car every two minutes and snap pictures. Unfortunately, the roads I was travelling were mostly the sort where it was impossible to stop. Besides, if I’d given in to temptation, the journey would have taken all day instead of the two-and-a-half hours each way it did take.
So I can’t show you the hens pecking amongst a bank of snowdrops in Menston; or the pub sign that glowed bright in Otley; or the waterlogged field where the sun danced close to Arthington; or the massed crocuses in front of the entrance to Harewood House. I can’t even show you the ponies tethered on the verge near Stamford Bridge.
I can only tell you that the Yorkshire Wolds are a very different landscape to the Pennine one I’m used to. The fields are big and open and the skies are wide and huge. There are hedgerows and fences instead of dry stone walls. The fertile soil is a chalky clay. The elevation’s lower than here so the spring flowers have raced ahead of ours.
Joss and I snatched a brief walk at our destination and it was refreshing to investigate a countryside that’s not our own. And, of course, there was nothing to stop me shooting whilst we walked; so I can at least give you a glimpse of what we found there.
Reader Comments (2)
All that green & blue makes my heart sing... what beautiful vignettes, Helen! How I wish it were so green & snowdrops growing here.. ;o) Happy Days ((HUGS)
Can it really be so green somewhere in the world? Still in a grayscape here. Nice to see some color, and to know that you're enjoying it.