Walking Part of the Herefordshire Trail

Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Sat, 16 Feb 2019
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9 comments
 

14/02/19

Mellow Herefordshire trail,
mist lifting,
new crops emerging,
sheep munching turnips,
bare orchards slumber,
warm sunshine, crisp air,
lunch at Bache Camp
with ground dropping past the dyke below us,
and sloping up fields to the
trees silhouetted on the sky line,
bare branches etched on blue sky.

Some open blue speedwell flowers,
and red dead nettles,
a few daisies, one dandelion,
and a sparkling patch of winter aconite
at a driveway entrance on the way home.

Certificate U
Poem
Countryside explorations
Nature

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

This sounds like a wonderful way to spend a day Rhiannon. Such wonderful views and as always I enjoyed reading.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny, I'm glad you enjoyed the stroll with me!
I hope you're hip settles down, maybe with some helpful physio advice. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Mark Say on

Simple images but nicely evocative of a relaxed walk.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Mark. I'm glad you thought so. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

and thanks for cherries. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Oh Rhiannon! I'm going to have to get brave and go for some proper walks this year - every time I read one of your walking poems they communicate the growing landscape so well and remind me how stuck in a rut I am! They are wonderful!

An unpoetic question - what do you wear on your feet?

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

smiley We do have walking boots, which are basically waterproof. They were expensive but they do last well, and round here the mud is very squelchy and sticky, and a lot of water lying around! I think there are good trainers these days, though. Wellingtons don't really give support I think, not that I have any good ones, and I think my feet rather need ankle support!

Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou fo the advice! I have wellies which I feel safer in going round the woods as I'm always misjudging whether it's shallow puddle or knee deep mud with a bit of water on the top :0) But they are not really the thing for hours of walking. Though I will probably conk out after two hours whatever I wear unless it is an exoskeleton robot suit :0)

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I've never been a fast walker! We don't walk very far, and getting back into it now.  My husband was brought up walking fast, but it's not so hard for him to walk slower now, especially with photographing to stop for! Rhiannon