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A fantastic trip away spending Christmas and the New Year in The Lake District. Loughrigg Fell is surrounded by an unusual amount of open water. To the north the River Rothay flows through Grasmere and Rydal Water before bending around the eastern side of Loughrigg.
A Panoramic shot of The Western fells in the Lake District Cumbria with the cloud going over the mountains
This past Sunday the New York Mets or Metropolitans fell in what the some of the local NY papers & sports radio hosts referred to as the Sunday Massacre to the Kansas City Royals in the 2015 edition of Major League Baseball’s World Series, losing the series in five games in the best of seven. Yes, I’m one of those NY Yankee fans who also root for the NY Mets, let’s face it, the Yankees made the playoff in 2015, but were in all of what, three hours before being eliminated by the Houston Astros in the American League Wildcard elimination game.
So back to the Mets, they had their ace Matt Harvey who got recognized as National League Comeback Player today after missing last season with Tommy John surgery on the mound Sunday, he gave them 8 fantastic innings, came out to pitch the 9th, that’s when the wheels came off and the Royals tied up the game, extra innings….then the Royals…well the Sunday Massacre. In reality, the Metropolitans over-achieved this year, by making it to the World Series for the first time since 2000 and for the first time in their relatively new ball park CitiFIELD in Flushing Meadow Queens which replaced Shea Stadium which was also at this location in 2009.
The Mets can trace their origins back to 1959, when a third major league was announced, the Continental League that would have professional major league clubs in the USA and Canada. It was the concept of attorney William Shea. New York City prior to 1957 had 3 professional major league baseball teams, the NY Yankees, the NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Giants and Dodgers both National League teams. Then the western exodus of the Giants to San Francisco and the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 left the largest market in the United States with one team. NYC Mayor Wagner put together a four man committee to officially bring a National League Club to New York City. The new league was formed with Branch Rickey the former Dodgers president who had a hand in bringing up Jackie Robinson to major league as the president of the Dodgers. The Continental League announced opening day would be April 18, 1961. To counter the formation of this new rogue league, the existing leagues, the American and the National counter attacked, proposing expansion clubs in 4 cities. The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc. was received as a member of the National League in 1961. William Shea got what many suspect he was truly after a NL club in New York and promptly stopped pushing for the Continental League and the end result was the Continental League disbanded without ever having played a game. The original stadium that was opened here in Flushing Meadows whose opening coincided with the 1964-1965 World’s Fair was named after William Shea, Shea Stadium. The Mets played there until 2009 when CitiFIELD was built in the parking lot of Shea Stadium and then Shea was torn down. Here is a link to a post I have a Shea Stadium [ flic.kr/p/ei1g3i ].
Taken with an Olympus E -5 with Olympus Digital Zuiko 14-42MM F3.5-5.6 lens, processed in Adobe Lightroom.
OK I’m still alive, nothing to it, had a bit of a fever last night chattering teeth and all, but a couple of paracetamol sorted that out and was still up at dawn to walk the dogs. Do you thing Toby and Oscar would let me lie in! Come on dad, the birds have been singing for an hour, time to get up and about, or more precisely, lick, lick, ruff, ruff. Todays photo is from March 2018 when me and Carla had a lovely 5 days in a cottage in Coniston. This day I walked up Coniston Old Man and round to Wetherlam, taking this photo from near the summit of Wetherlam. These fells hold great winter memories of when I used to bring the boys, back in the nineties, we had some epic adventures walking miles, it didn’t count as an outing unless we bagged at least 4 Wainwrights. On one walk we battled up Wetherlam in persistent blizzards, close to the summit we had to shelter behind a crag only to be joined by a solo walker making his way down. As I made general conversation I heard Carlo whispering to Gino, “he’s got icicles hanging from his moustache”! As the blizzard eased we said our goodbyes and headed for the summit feeling a bit guilty on what I was constantly pushing my boys through. Given that they were only aged 9 and 11 and had climbed/scambled most of the fells above 2000 feet, many in winter, I decided to give them a break this day. So from the summit we headed down to Coppermine valley and the boys just played, building an igloo, climbing boulders and having fun as boys of that age should. Siobhan my daughter-in-law calls me the walking nazi, a bit harsh but she has a point.
Here's a second and hopefully better quality image taken on yesterdays hike. This time though the old 7D was used and the weather had picked up a little. The location was the summit of Gavell Fell and the distant hills in the cloud include Red Pike and Fleetwith Pike.
View across Crummock Water towards Buttermere from the top of Low Fell, captured during a glorious sunset (which is, on reflection, probably not the best time to capture this view).
A collection of pictures of Campsie Fells from different viewpoints.
The Campsie Fells are a range of hills in central Scotland, stretching east to west from Denny Muir to Dumgoyne, in Stirlingshire and overlooking Strathkelvin to the south. The southern extent of the range fall within East Dunbartonshire.
A fantastic trip away spending Christmas and the New Year in The Lake District. Loughrigg Fell is surrounded by an unusual amount of open water. To the north the River Rothay flows through Grasmere and Rydal Water before bending around the eastern side of Loughrigg.
This is right at the southern end of the Yorkshire Dales. We came across this while making our way across country from Ripon to our temporary base just south of Grassington. One of the most beautiful villages in Wharfedale, Burnsall lies on a bend of the River Wharfe surrounded by a spectacular circle of fells. The village was originally an Anglo-Viking settlement and the parish church still contains rare Viking and Anglo-Saxon carved stones.
Spent a lovely morning looking at a couple of ruins - one set being a complete farmstead which was fascinating as few complete ruined properties exist like this in the Lakes anymore.
This would have been the view facing them as they came and went to their fields.
You'd never get bored would you.
Horses and ponies always seem popular on flickr, so here's a shot of the whole herd we encountered in the Howgills yesterday. It felt like we were in Mongolia...
42073 among the Autumn colours at the south end of Lake Windermere during a PVC charter. Saturday 2 November 2019.
A fantastic trip away spending Christmas and the New Year in The Lake District. Loughrigg Fell is surrounded by an unusual amount of open water. To the north the River Rothay flows through Grasmere and Rydal Water before bending around the eastern side of Loughrigg.
A farm surrounded by outstanding beauty. High Rigg in the middle ground and Clough Head in the background.
Today was a great day for walking the fells of Cumbria. Loughrigg Fell, 335m (1099ft) but what a stunner of a mountain it is! This picture is looking north towards Grasmere and Dunmail Raise just to the left of the trig. It's days like these that fill the soul...
In the stunted conifer belt near the top. Steady drizzle all day so these larch provided welcome shelter.