It’s been one of those days. Looking forward to better weather at the weekend.

Bus shelter graffiti. I think it reads ‘Wrightie, Widnes, April 14, 1968’. Between Keswick and Bassenthwaite by Crookelty Bridge.

Greta Hall, Keswick was the home of the famous poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. The hall was visited by a number of the Lake Poets and other literary figures including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley and Ruskin.

Snow on the higher fells at the southern end of Borrowdale this morning. Castle Crag, once the site of a hill fort in the centre.

An old road near Grasmere in Cumbria. This is what roads used to be like before cars were invented.

Another rhododendron, this time Red Bank near Grasmere in the drizzle early Saturday morning.

Rhododendron under a misty fell at Mirehouse near Bassenthwaite in the Lake District on Friday. I guess the cloud and rain suits the rhododendrons, many of which are brightly flowered at the moment.

Rain and low cloud over Catbells yesterday. The Lake District can be beautiful but the price is bad weather.

Blossom in Keswick with the Skiddaw Fells in the background. Whoever decided to plant these trees did a great job.

One of the old trees near Millbeck in Cumbria.
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Lovely to get some sunshine in Borrowdale today. This is Great Wood which I think is owned by the National Trust.

The River Lowther in Askham yesterday.

Sunset over the Western Lake District last night.

An exhibition of art by Percy Kelly (1918–1993) in Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. Percy Kelly was an artist born in Workington in West Cumbria who also lived in Wales and Norfolk. He rarely sold his work saying he could not bear to part with them.

Warm wind blowing the clouds around this morning.
Keswick, Cumbria.

‘To southerners, the north means desolation, arctic temperatures, mushy peas, a cultural wasteland with limited shopping opportunities. To northerners it means home, truth, beauty, valour, romance, warm and characterful people, real beer and decent chip shops’. S. Maconie.

The River Eden near Carlisle looking like a painting.

It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows HOW old - three, was it, or four? - never had he seen so much rain. Days and days and days. Every day the water got a little higher. ~A.A.Milne #rain #flooding

Early light on clouds under Skiddaw this morning. Lake District.

Four of the old trees in ancient woodland near Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria.
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