Lynn
@lynnshls
Like nature, animals, buildings, outdoors, dim sum, #AnneLister, some history, WSL. Trying to please two cats.
Chatsworth: it’s not often (thankfully) that the nearby grassland is the same colour as the house 😬.
From my last proper walk before it became far too hot for such things (for me, at least).
This coat of arms is about 30% the same as Anne Lister’s. You can read about hers here! www.packedwithpotential.org/stories-arti...
I appreciate plants these days more than I would ever have imagined even a couple of years ago. I think this has sort of developed backwards, from a late interest in birds, to insects, to plants. We humans would be nowhere without all, or even any, of those things.
In Ashbourne, this is the most direct route between The Green Man and St Oswald’s Church, where Anne Lister and Mrs Lawton stayed and visited respectively in 1825. There’s a number of 18th century and earlier buildings, which they would have seen if they took this route.
This photo of a blackbird high on a balustrade is pretty poor, and blurred. But it reminds of its delightful surround-sound song filling central Buxton on a glorious, hot evening recently. 🐦⬛ It’s especially nice to think of now it’s cool and wet!
A tree appreciation post. It’s not a brilliant photo, but it was a lovely walk made even better by this tree.
I love the “clean up” function on my new phone - this photo had three people in two places before I played about with it!
The 19th century rise of the railways, and cheap enough fares for many to visit the seaside, also brought about the manufacture and sale of china souvenirs like these, imprinted with the relevant town crest. (Photo not overcropped if you open it up!)
I wonder whether Anne Lister admired this awesome cupola on either of her two visits (1825 and 1835) to Chatsworth in the Peak District!
I can never see this beautiful crescent, or walk on the slopes opposite, without thinking of Anne Lister. The slopes (then St Ann’s Cliff) weren’t there on her first visit with Mariana’s honeymoon party in 1816, but were in place by 1825, her next visit to Buxton.
Lovely photo. Here’s one not so good, but in similar fashion here’s a sparrow about to feather his nest.
It’s always a thrill and a privilege to see a hare. This thoughtful, tender, joyous, and enchanting book is an utterly delightful complement to those occasional sightings, and an equally special read for anyone yet to see their first hare.
Buxton. Where Anne Lister stayed in 1816, 1825, and 1835. I think she liked it there!
Going out in the rain was well worth it! I can straighten this later - it’s was a bit tricky to take.
It’s a skidding on the ice sort of day 🥶. Watching them, I felt sorry for them, though one has sensibly got onto the bank.
And then there were two. There were three, but they move quite fast - too fast for me to get my phone ready!