The Cliff Road Path. Classic Holme Valley landscape. Walled fields from the 1826 enclosures, a seventies housing estate, 2 wooded cloughs, a turbine and buttercups!

Buttercup meadow off Cliff Road, Holmfirth.

Don't want to wish my life away but really looking forward to 5th July & never hearing from this shower of crooks again :-)

Peering over Cow Parsley & Buttercup meadows to Holmfirth.

Lovely wet green morning here 🙂

Green Gate Farm & view. Cow Parsley lined verges are superb at the moment. Rain toorrow.

Lovely, heartbreaking diary today from Mark Cocker on the decline of curlew. A bird I hear in my dreams. By chance I was on Orkney last week, with its pervasive livestock industry, and yet there were curlew everywhere. Begs many questions. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Cool and grey. Hints of Buttercups.

Support Calderdale’s first community-owned nature reserve - a crowdfunder to buy Bridestones Moor near Todmorden: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bridestones-…

Blossom for breakfast. Out our back this morning.

Brodick, Isle of Arran.

Cow Parsley lined lane on a misty Holmfirth morning :-)

Morning mists and swishing tails.

Stepped out the back door with Alf this morning to a screeching squadron of Swifts. Perfect start then 🙂

A couple of young otters with a lobster caught by their mother. Spotted early at the Kyles of Bute :-)

Glen Sannox, Arran. I'd never visited this island before and was blown away by the hills and coast.

Bute & Arran trip became a bitter sweet affair with the loss of our Staffie, Paddy. He took ill on Arran and despite the wonderful Arran Vets at Broddick died last Friday. Laid him to rest beneath the hills of Glen Sannox.

Bute & Arran trip going well but do feel a little pushed out by the dog 😂

Parked up by a sandy bay on Bute. Sun's heading out way so won't be moving anytime soon 😊

Hinchliffe Mill. Squeezed into the valley beneath green fields and grey skies.