nature & scenery

In 1981 I was working in Medan, North Sumatra but as I was about to transfer to The Hague we decided to take vacation and travel around some other parts of Indonesia before leaving. We had just spent a few days in Yogyakarta and were now flying east to Bali over East Java and the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The islands of Sumatra and Java lie on a long volcanic arc above a subduction zone where the Indo-Australia plate is moving beneath the Eurasia plate making it very volcanically active.

On our journey from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park we turned off Highway 120 to Vista Point overlooking Woods Creek in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The car was a rental vehicle. I think it's a 1977 Dodge Aspen 4-door sedan. Can anyone confirm that? HFF & welcome back to Ipernity!

A snowy Peak District landscape looking east from the Buxton-Leek road to Hollinsclough Moor and Longnor. The mini-Matterhorn in the centre is Chrome Hill a Lower Carboniferous limestone reef knoll. HFF and a great & safe weekend.

An early morning walk around Aylestone Meadows. HFF and have a great & safe weekend.

Perhaps there is light at the end of the tunnel! Spring shows itself in Leicester.

It may look like a dug-out canoe high and dry in a field but these fields are actually floating on Inle Lake and the boat, like ours, is making its way along a narrow waterway. The fields are anchored into the bottom of the shallow lake by those hundreds of wooden poles. We had a great time in Burma but little did we realise that it would be the last trip before the covid lockdown. Now we are very pleased to have actually been able to take a holiday in 2020. Let's hope the recent military coup doesn't lead to any deaths and can be resolved quickly.

A real winter in Leicester this year!

A summer morning over West Yorkshire. The view looking Northeast towards Soil Hill from the A629 at Ogden between Halifax & Keighley. HFF & have a great Easter weekend.

Wicken Fen Nature Reserve is a small undrained part of the fenlands north of Cambridge - less than 1% of original fen survives in East Anglia. It was the first nature reserve owned by the National Trust and has been in their care since 1899. In a reversal of the normal situation the Trust has built windmills around the reserve not to drain the fen but to pump water back in so it doesn't dry out.