Meanwood

I've embarked on an eight week series of mindfulness workshops, so that will be occupying my Saturdays for the next couple of months. This involves travelling over to north Leeds, so after today's workshop I stayed to explore the Meanwood Valley and some of the Headingley suburbs.

This gate is probably a relic of the Meanwoodside estate, but it lent a poetic quality to the woodland. I also took a detour to visit a former home of J.R.R. Tolkien, so perhaps the woods around Meanwood Beck offered some inpsiration for Rivendell. Can youimagine the elves stepping through the gates and onto their boats for a journey down the beck?