Category: drawings
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Manic trees, magical colours and evening light
In the evenings the light can be magical. The sky has more colours – violets and pinks as well as blue – and the hills can be anything from ochre to viridian or even burnt orange. It’s the best time to wander on the hill. All of the colours glow, especially the gorse flowers which…
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there
[caption id="attachment_1348" align="alignnone" width="1000"] up on the windy ridge between Winder and Arant Haw, with glowering clouds[/caption] One night I decided, just as the light was disappearing, to hasten up the fell, 1,955 feet of steep climbing right up to the summit of Winder. A lung-opening, blood-stirring, bone-strengthening lunge of an effort, guaranteed to leave…