Moor pictures

I give thanks for a good session of wallpaper stripping with my good friends this afternoon followed by a drive round Dartmoor with no map or particular plan just following our noses but coming across some lovely serendipitous finds on the way. Delicious ice cream from a van below Hay Tor just before the seller packed up for the day... a hazy strip of peachy sunset coloured cloud on the western horizon...stunningly picturesque Buckland in the Moor with its chocolate box thatched cottages and one of the prettiest churches I've ever seen... and realising the turning was there for one of the prettiest lanes I've ever been on, just once a couple of years ago (I'd send you down it virtually but sadly it was missed by the Streetview car perhaps because the turn off actually doesn't look like it's a public road but a private driveway) and rediscovering and sharing its delights...tree tunnels and golden bracken and old bridges spanning clear running water...dry stone walls and moss covered ones... puddles and streams brightly reflecting the white of the sky...ponies and foals and cows and calves and sheep...and astonishingly mild weather still for little out of the car ambles...