Yep, the weather forecast for late morning was accurate ... direction down .. condition wet. Very wet! Just managed to give mad mutt some muddy exercise before heading back home into some warm and dry. Photography almost impossible today due to dreary, dark skies that brought in a deluge, but a few photo's I took are worth sharing, just for interest.
Yes, this is still used by the farmer that owns this land, old fashioned maybe, but still functional, though definitely no longer mobile. So many sheep have passed through this piece of agricultural engineering. And with this view over the mountain, on a bright sunny day ... what a pleasure it must be to work with the flock. But, in heavy winter snow these fields can be impossible to reach at times.
And as for these ramshackle old ruins ...??
A friend tells me that his mother and grandmother lived there when three small houses stood here. No running water except that which they brought up from a lower brook and no electricity. Tough times and so very bitter in winter.
Now it is just a shelter for the sheep and a regular perch, used by a watchful buzzard.
The mood of the moors changed as the the rain rolled in and I tried out the sepia facility,
which captured my mood too.
Time to close the gate on the day.
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