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Monday 12 May 2014

Tantalising...


Time for another walk - very local, this one - through the ancient woodland known as Hirst Wood. Bounded on one side by the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and on the other by the railway line, it is not a huge area but it is a much-loved beauty spot, popular with dog-walkers. The trees are predominantly beech, birch and oak, growing on a moraine of gravel and boulders left by a retreating glacier 10000 years ago. But its treasure is the extensive carpet of bluebells that covers the woodland floor in May - just tantalising hint in this photo.

6 comments:

  1. Lovely. It's a wonderful time of year isn't it?

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  2. A fabulous place for a walk, indeed !

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  3. This is a wonderful scene that you have captured.

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  4. Wow, I would love to walk here. We live in an area of Wisconsin called the Kettle Moraine...this looks like a more lush version of the land around me!

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  5. A very inviting path leading into an enchanted woodland. I particularly like the way that the budding leaves give the wood an impressionist air.

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  6. The foliage here is very lush.

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