Golden Age

Well an hour or two anyway.  You have to take opportunities after a morning of rain and before a grey late afternoon. No rainbow to point the way but a cache of gold on Blacka.

It's intriguing that SRWT's long term aim is to change these woods giving them plenty of work that they can spread out over the years. The pine and larch are not regenerating so will go largely without encouragement in time. They add a lot to the scenic variety.

Favourite quiet paths are at their best with bracken bewitching us with its autumn changes.

Beech brings striking colours and the young low trees can be spectacular. As these spread one must assume that SRWT will send in the mad destroyers at some point. That will be unbearable for those of us who've loved the woods as they are and have been more or less for a lifetime.