Blackensford Bottom

Blackensford Bottom

Same day, take #1

 

In the right place in the right light, autumns' winding down sees the colour slowly drained from the forest, and the landscape take on an almost sepia like tone.

Autumns' developing pallet

 

For all but 20 minutes of this mornings' walk we enjoying various degrees of rain, none of it not wet. The 20 minutes break was about 2/3 through, when out of nowhere and within moments the rain had stopped and the skies had cleared revealing the sun, causing steam to rise from the stands. There's no doubt the forest's lovely in any season, though unquestionably it's spring and autumn that steal the show, and the forests' autumnal pallet is developing nicely.

Black Water reborn?

Geoff and I were walking North Oakley ways this morning and happened across Blackensford Brook, one of two head waters which feed Black Water, and it was flowing, or at least giving that impression if you screwed up your eyes. Oh I thought, Black Water has been reborn...barely; then I thought, has it though? Or has Blackensford Brook been flowing weakly like this throughout, and the water's disappearing below the gravel long before it becomes Black Water; this point being just beyond Stinking Edge Wood, is only a matter of a couple of hundred meters from the dual sources of the stream in Backley and Blackenford bottoms, two hollows where water has been present throughout. Considering that I came to the conclusion that we'll probably need a lot more rain before we see Black Water flowing again.