More Heather

[Ken Rennie]

Saturday's walk took me up King's How at just over 1,200ft not big but very steep. I thought that the walk up was exhausting with 400 vertical feet of a rough set of steps. However I decided to make it a circular walk. A couple of footpaths were shown on my high quality maps but the hillside was largely covered in shoulder to over the head high bracken making the paths invisible. In the end a 3.5 mile walk with 1400ft of climbing took me 3.5 hours with much of that taken trying to find my way down through the bracken and then a fair time spent ensuring that I hadn't picked up any ticks. I have more images taken facing up Borrowdale but they require a fair amount of processing so could take a while. Ken

 

[AlanLichty]

The heather is beautiful - both in the foreground as well as the distant slopes. Its a plant we have in our garden but I have never seen it in the wild like this.

I like the view of the fields in the second image and the foreground rocks and blooms in the third.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great set Ken I really like that last one

 

[Ken Rennie]

The heather is beautiful - both in the foreground as well as the distant slopes. Its a plant we have in our garden but I have never seen it in the wild like this.

I like the view of the fields in the second image and the foreground rocks and blooms in the third.

Much of Scotland and Northern England is covered in many different varieties of Heather. Ken

 

[John Holbrook]

Ken, beautiful landscapes all—the last image is my favorite.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Ken, beautiful landscapes all—the last image is my favorite.

John if you look carefully you will see that the background is somewhat out of focus. I often focus stack but forgot to do se here. Ken

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice range of colors in that landscape.

 

[JimFox]

These are so cool Ken. That's quite the adventure you had. I would say it was well worth it.

I have a hard time choosing a favorite, as all 3 have distinct enough ground layers.