Friday 4 September 2015

Home?

Do you think of the place where you are currently living as home? I've lived away from Yorkshire, where I was born and brought up, for almost half a century. While my parents were alive I called it 'home' and in my heart and head so it remains.
We have just returned from a couple of weeks back 'home' where the weather was kind, with two spectacular storms only at night and the days mostly warm and bright. The downpours turned the village water supply peat brown, a source of annoyance to those in the village who were wanting a white wash!
The heather was in full bloom.
Caught reverting to childhood!
(Our elder daughter came home for the Bank Holiday weekend and did just the same thing, lying out in the heather as she has always loved to do since being a very small child.)
Wide open spaces and the colours that I love, blue, mauve, purple.
A regular circular walk from the village is along the green drovers' road.

My small dales garden had obviously been flowering it's socks off in my absence and there was plenty of cutting back to do. There's now a huge pile of stuff in the back garth that will make a good bonfire come November.
I borrowed a book of old photos of the dale and found this picture of the chapel that sits at the far side of the stream from us. Now I know that the gateposts on our drive were already in place in 1837.
Quite a lot of trees have grown up since then!
It's a great place for sky watching and this sunset made it impossible to stay indoors. We walked along the road at the top of the village as the colours in the sky quickly changed.


Pink clouds for Skywatch Friday.


It has been our regular daily stroll. Here is Wee One with my father walking along the same road, the photo taken when she was ten years old. twenty-seven years ago!






24 comments:

  1. Hello, I love the fiels of heather. And the colors in your sky are gorgeous. Lovely collection of images. Happy Friday, have a happy weekend!

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    1. All the moor tops are coloured with heather just now - a special time of year.

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  2. Gorgeous skies and I like the pictures of you in the heather.

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    1. Squinting into the sunshine, perhaps you can tell how ridiculously happy I was!

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  3. Lovely photos taken on your walk. The heather looks so inviting no wonder you lay in it. Home to me is where I am living at that moment in time.

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    1. A wise reply, Barbara, and having seen photos on your blog of your life in France I am not the least bit surprised that you feel so at home there. I note that you have a son In Denmark so you are obviously a family who travels with ease unhampered by too much looking back.

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  4. Home is where you feel comfy although I find it so interesting you can be away from a place and live somewhere else longer than the place you were brought up in. I am not so patriotic myself but then again I still feel like an expat here.

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    1. I feel comfy in the South-West where I've lived for the greater part of my life, it is my present life and expected to be my future one. But when I go north I'm known as someone's daughter, someone's school friend, and it gives me great pleasure.
      I wonder, will you always feel an expat? Will it take a chateau in France to make you feel at home!! London is a melting pot, will you one day say, "I'm a Londoner"?

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  5. Wonderful photos of you in the heather. I would do the same thing! :-)
    Lovely pink skies too!

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  6. Beautiful photos of Yorkshire with the best ones of you in the heather. Gorgeous photos of the skies by sunset too.

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    1. So lucky with the weather, Janneke, it was a joy to be in the Dales. We had a long walk with our daughter on Bank Holiday Sunday and had the moorland all to ourselves. "Where is everybody?" she asked. She's obviously been living in London for too long!

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  7. Beautiful skies, color, and countryside. Totally love your "reversion to childhood"!!

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    1. I'm quite good at reversion - although I've stopped doing handstands!

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  8. Yes, real home is where we come from. The pictures of you in Heather are beyond words. I do not come from a place as beautiful, but that does not take away from my beautiful memories of love and family . Where we first experienced love is really where our hearts and emotions go back to.

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    1. Yes, Maybe, you are right, that is what is about.

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  9. There you are. Pretty as a picture. Longing in the Lavender and no doubt feeling very serene. I go nuts for English lavender and work hard to make it happy in my garden since it really doesn't love the climate here in Southern California.

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    1. Hi Connie, If I were to lie out on lavender I doubt that it would recover, although it would smell wonderful! But heather makes a wonderfully springy and resilient mattress. I would have expected lavender to have loved a Southern Californian climate of sunshine - heather wouldn't stand a chance!
      I added to the ' what I bought' post on Miss Cellany to show you the seam lines on the linen dress which I hope is helpful.

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  10. Born and bred in Sydney, travelled the world but Sydney is my home.
    Merle........

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    1. Good for you, Merle, it sounds like wise action, see the world but know where home is.

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  11. So beautiful and serene! You live in such lovely country. :o)

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    1. I appreciate the variety of landscape and character that this relatively small country offers - but the weather can be a bit of a challenge! (Not that I'm complaining really because it is pretty benign, with no great extremes.)

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  12. Beautiful, beautiful photos and I can imagine lying there in the heather must be lovely. I used to be a city girl but 18 years ago my husband and I moved to the country side and it took me a while but today this is with no doubt what I call home. This is where our girls have grown up and I love this place. Yes, this is definitely home to me. :)

    Take care.♥

    Charlie
    xx

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    1. Dear Charlie, your blog informs me that you live in a beautiful place and that your attitude to life, and your battle with illness, is equally impressive. Life is precious and I send you my very best wishes.
      Rx.

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