Half a dozen dales, a destructive storm, snow and a TV star … it’s been a funny old week. 14 pics to enjoy. My camera captured the last of autumn’s colours down by the Ribble (top pic). My cottage roof captured the worst of the storm, with several tiles being dislodged. Fortunately the storm and the worst (or the best, depending on your point of view) of the snow dispersed later in the week so I was able to keep a date with the ‘Yorkshire Shepherdess’ Amanda Owen on her isolated farm at Ravenseat.
Being short of time today I’ll let the photos and captions tell the story.
PS: A dales date for your diary… meet David and Janet Mitchell at The Folly, Settle on Tuesday Nov 29, 10am-4pm to help celebrate the launch of the new Dalesman book, Bill Mitchell’s Yorkshire.
Snow-capped Penyghent seen in the distance from the mill pond at LangcliffeLate colours on the mill pond. A cold start to the day in the Dales… frost on the higher trees and a lively River Ribble rushing by some late autumn colour.Before the storm – plenty of blue sky above Langcliffe. The snow line was just a couple of hundred feet away on this day.Giggleswick Chapel looking like a Victorian postcard.The sad sight of disappearing snowmen at Winskill. All that work just melting away.A classic dales view. Looking across Ribblesdale from Winskill to a snowy Ingleborough.Two views of Penyghent. Looks inviting but with icy winds blowing, the temperature up at the top was well below freezing – not that I went up to find out.
Further north in the dales – Wainwath Falls near Keld in Swaledale.Looking across a frozen dales landscape from Buttertubs Pass. The sky seems to blend into the icy landscape.View from Buttertubs looking back towards Ingleborough.Ravenseat, the isolated Dales farm of author, shepherdess, supermum and now TV star Amanda Owen and her husband Clive and their nine children. I interviewed Amanda for an article due to appear in February’s Countryman magazine.
Half a dozen dales, a destructive storm, snow and a TV star … it’s been a funny old week. 14 pics to enjoy. My camera captured the last of autumn’s colours down by the Ribble (top pic). My cottage roof captured the worst of the storm, with several tiles being dislodged. Fortunately the storm and the worst (or the best, depending on your point of view) of the snow dispersed later in the week so I was able to keep a date with the ‘Yorkshire Shepherdess’ Amanda Owen on her isolated farm at Ravenseat.
