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 ric
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Must be a bank holiday weekend …cold wet and blowing a gale… quite a change from Friday.   I was working in a wee Somerset village, taking a late lunch I drove a mile or so down one of the rough tracks onto the moor and parked up where one of the grass droves split off towards the river half a mile or so away… being a bit past normal lunch time I sat in he truck having a nibble before going for a stroll.  As  I sat there munching a middle age woman came walking by… was this track more well used than I thought or had I hit the one walker of the week?  No sigh of anyone else in the 10 minutes or so it took to eat lunch… so I stuffed a pair of shorts in the shoulder bag got out and took of shirt and trousers stuffing them under the seat , locked up and set of down the grass drove towards the river,  The drove is a dea end purely access to the half dozen fields  ajoining it.  The first part had tall hedges , giving way to water filled ditches further along.  After a while I became aware I was being watched from the ajoining pasture… a deer… we watched each other for a few minutes.. I was the distracted by a bird flying over and when I looked back there was no sign of the deer.. don’t know whether it had run off or just laid down in the long grass… anyway it seemed curious rather than scared .. don’t think it has seen many naked ramblers..  The drove ended at a padlocked gate to the riverside field… looking back up the drove I could just make out the glint of sunlight on my windscreen  among the trees in the distance. I continued across the pasture towards the river aware that there was a footpath along both rive banks… when I got there th lack of any tracks in the vegetation shows how little used the path , at least on this bank was.  I spent some time watching the dragonflies along the river bank before retracing my steps back towards civilisation and clothing…. In all a bit over an hour’s relaxation at he end of a busy week.  Most of that time id been in view of villages in the distance..at one point I could see 5 church towers.

 
Posted : May 29, 2010 12:01 pm
takaka
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Some great photos. I really must make time to go and explore the moors around my way when I get the chance.

 
Posted : May 29, 2010 12:09 pm
adnams
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Somerset is my favourite county - really must try to spend more time on the moors and Mendips!

Brian

 
Posted : May 30, 2010 6:53 am
smoothie cpl
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fantastic crisp pics, sounds a really nice spot

Life isn't surviving the storm, its learning to dance in the rain.

 
Posted : June 10, 2010 5:04 pm