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This is a view of Elysium Barn in Hades above Holmfirth. One of the symbols of Hades was the cornucopia, also called the horn of plenty, a symbol of abundance and nourishment and there certainly is an abundance of good compositions to nourish me here.
This mushroom must have thought that it’d found the safest place in the forest nestled as it is, between the roots of this tree. Well, not so, I still found it and took its picture.
I was walking Louis at the start of another hot summer’s day in the unusually hot spell of weather that the UK was experiencing when I came across this fungus. I associate fungi with the wet cooler temperatures of the autumn, not dry spells with temperatures in the high 20s.
All the aliens that visit our planet are insular and not interested in our culture otherwise they would stop approaching the vulnerable in our society, who no one believes, and appear on a TV chat show. Instead, perhaps they come here to enjoy the countryside because their planets have been ravished by wars or over exploitation. This is a place which they might enjoy: Digley Brook.
In a recent video Simon Baxter said that images of trees in the fog are soo 2016. Imagine my surprise, I didn’t realise that I was so up-to-date! I’m the sort of person that has to turn down invites to 1980s fancy dress parties because I don’t have any clothes that modern. He’s now advocating that for woodland photography don’t look for trees! How would that work for portraits? Simon was serious, I’m not: I highly recommend his YouTube channel and Instagram account.
While walking past Hades towards Elysium I got talking to a friend of mine about the Soay sheep kept at Elysium. She said that the Scottish fishing villages each had a different style and pattern for their fisherman’s sweaters or gansey. (The connection being that Soay sheep are from St Kilda, Scotland.) This meant that if a fisherman’s body was washed up on the shore then at least their village could be identified from the sweater. I replied that if I was found drowned in my sweater then they’d think that I was from Marks and Spencer. Judging by the look on her face, she wouldn’t be too upset if I was found drowned. in this or any other jumper.