Pleasure of Paths (7)

This is the favourite secluded route that follows the Lee Stream. It could be that I won’t walk this path again before September. By then the bracken may have been knocked back by a few cold nights. It’s a good walk from mid autumn through to June but the bracken dominates in high summer. When there’s been rain you’re drenched, otherwise the midges that gather around bracken can be troublesome even in the mornings.

The cattle have discovered this path and it has become squelchy with hoofprints full of water in places.

This waterfall is now easier to view than the cascade below High Voltage Terrace once you’ve braved the rest of the route.

Even without the bracken there are swampy and indistinct stretches. Definitely a route for those who love the wildly overgrown (a declining number).

The holly that provided us with Christmas decoration is still displaying a surprising show of red berries even in June.
A place for those who love to explore.