Before & now.

Changeable weather: even our visiting Pheasant is taking cover.

Thought for today.

“That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.”
(Enobarbus)

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

Finding the Mother Tree.

Click book image for Amazon link.

From Wiki:
Simard asserts that healthy forests centre on a matriarch tree that acts as a nexus of nutrient distribution that shares these nutrients among other trees of the same or different ages and species that are chemically and physically linked together by an expansive mycorrhizal network. Simard faced ridicule during her younger years; however her research became “critical to addressing problems in the timber industry” that led to reforms in sustainable forestry.

Hidden pond.

A cold morning.

Castle Howard lake view.

From my files – A view over the Great Lake (Castle Howard North Yorkshire) the lake being built by the 5th Earl in the 1790s

Spent some time here over Xmas & New Year, ignoring all the dire prognostications that seem to emanate from everywhere.

A thought for the last day of 2021.

Maybe a somewhat controversial thought on this last day of 2021.

From the Encyclopædia Britannica:-

Dictatorship.

A form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations. The term dictatorship comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises
Modern dictators, however, resemble ancient tyrants rather than ancient dictators. Ancient philosophers’ descriptions of the tyrannies of Greece and Sicily go far toward characterizing modern dictatorships. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.

Let us hope 2022 can revert back to what passed for normal two years ago.

Abandoned carpet.

Abandoned carpet – from my negative files.

Three stones.

Three stones – from my files.

Summer remembered.

Old tree trunks No2.

Old tree trunks.

Bridge shadows.

Trees & Rock.

Trees and rock – Padley Woods.

Burbage Brook – Negatives from the 1980s No4.

Burbage brook was used as the feeder stream for Padley Mill.

Padley Mill: Negatives from the 1980s No3.

Padley Mill on Kodacolor VR 200 film made between 1982 & 86

The back of the mill can be seen through the trees and the stream in the foreground fed a small dam (behind the trees on the left of the image) which maintained flow through the mill race.
This was a corn mill from the mid-eighteen century; also used as a saw mill and wire-drawing mill.

Negatives from the 1980s No2.

Padley Mill Grindleford Derbyshire, a former water-powered corn mill.
Made on: Kodacolor VR 200 introduce in 1982 and discontinued 1986.

Found a sheet of negatives from the 1980s.

Water Mill drive converter wheel.

Going through old negatives, I found a sheet from the early 1980s of Padley Mill and Padley woods in the Peak District National Park: Derbyshire.
Kodacolor VR200 film which was made between 1982 to 86, this helped me date them at more than 35 years old.

I have been scanning and converting some into B&W.

A leaf.

A foggy day.

Yashica mat 124G with Tmax 400 at asa 320.

Peak District – Derbyshire.

Rocks: Ilford FP4 plus.

York Minster.

I am almost sure this negative (T-max TMY not TMY-2) was made in the early 1980’s.

The first recorded church on this site was a wooden structure built in 627, the present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. Looking at its history: the site seems to have been beset by fires ! see this Wiki link.