Standing guard over the lake and Fleetwith Pike, though gradually succumbing to the elements as you will find if you do a Flickr search on 'the Buttermere tree' or click the link below to 'Lake Light' by Dave Butcher. www.google.co.uk/search?q=Lake+Light+dave+butcher&esp...
#22 - Tree(s) - 52 in 2016 Challenge
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A brooding Great Gable with the crags of the Great Napes just visible in the swirling clouds. The summit is a couple of hundred feet directly above the Napes.
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In summer storm-light - driving over the Hardknott Pass was 'interesting'!
The Langdale Pikes comprise (left to right): Pike of Stickle, Loft Crag (in the sunlight), Harrison Stickle (with the nearly flat top) and Pavey Ark (at the right-hand end of the ridge line coming off Harrison Stickle).
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Alan and I had tried on and off for about 18 months to get up to the Lake District for a couple of days with our cameras but for various reasons had been unable to do so.
We finally managed to make it in March and were greeted by a light covering of snow on the highest ground. We arrived in lunchtime sunshine though this had petered out into uniform grey by the time this shot was taken on the path between Slater's Bridge and Wilson Place in Little Langdale later that afternoon.
But our second day dawned bright but very cold with a hard frost and the vestiges of a little mist - a photographer's dream - and one of the most memorable times I've had in all my visits to the Lakes..
It was a great joy that we did manage to make the trip because just a month later Alan died very suddenly - a huge shock to both family and friends. Though it was a big shock and accompanied by great sadness, it wasn't characterised by despair because Alan was a Christian and the family & friends could hold on to what the apostle Paul said in one of his letters "we do not grieve as those without hope....
....and so (he) will be with the Lord for ever."
But I do miss him.
(Used with permission).
#1 - Portrait - 52 in 2016 Challenge
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A rather damp and definitely windswept me celebrating(?) being on the summit of St. Sunday Crag, my final 'Wainwright', with a bottle of 'Wainwright' beer carried up for the occasion by my son (see www.wainwrightroutes.co.uk/ for more info if you're interested!)
It was cold, wet and very windy, so the bottle didn't get consumed on top. Instead we headed on i.e. down, having decided to celebrate over a meal and a beer or two (for me) in the Coledale Inn before my son set off back to Newcastle.
Final Wainwright and final upload for 2017. Wishing friends and followers a very happy 2018.
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