Taking in the View

We've been pretty much full on all day so we didn't set off for our daily walk until after dinner.  Tony has been weeding in the allotment and I've been rubbing down and repainting the allotment gate.

Luckily we bumped in to airedaleknitter and MrAK returning from their walk with Reggie as we left the house and I was able to tell her that the knitting needles I had for her were sitting in a bag on our patio seat.  There's been a fair bit of sorting and recycling things during this lockdown.

We walked up through Deepcliff and out on to the moor as the sun began to descend.  The bog cotton, blipped recently by several local blippers, was glowing in the evening light and the viaduct stood out in the distance.  After a day in which the birdsong has been pushed out by the working sounds from the quarry and the building site, and the increased traffic, it was good to have the moor to ourselves and to regain the peace we have enjoyed since March.  We paused on Badger Stones to take in the view and this is my blip.

AK had mentioned seeing the green woodpecker to us.  We weren't fortunate enough to spot it, but we are pretty sure we heard it as we descended through the woodland.