Heather and hay

Here are a couple more photos from my walk on Otley Chevin (see also yesterday), these taken from the bottom of the woodland, looking over into the Wharfe valley below. The heather on the heathland still had some colour, a pretty shade of dusky rose rather than the sharper purply pink it sports earlier in its brief life. In the meadows in the valley, the hay had been cut and the cornfields harvested. As in the woodland, the fields take on a golden hue at this time of year. 

Landmarks? On the horizon in the top photo, to the right, you can see the rocky outcrop of Almscliffe Crag. In the picture below, the outskirts of the market town of Otley are visible to the left - and you might be able to see Farnley Hall, a minor stately home where the artist JMW Turner often stayed. It is right on the vertical centre line of the photo, just beyond the band of cornfields. (See HERE for more about that.)