Starting the week with sheep for my Daily #Wales. Inspired to do so because this Tuesday sees the opening of our makers’ pop-up in #Harlech, where I will be spinning in public during the next four weeks.
And talking about sheep. A lot. These, BTW, are Black Welsh Mountains.
A random pic for today’s Daily #Wales as I look forward to a day of tech problems.
Or maybe not. Maybe today will be that magical plug and play day rather than a plug and swear and unplug and swear and plug again and swear even more and call tech support day.
It’s Friday, I made it home through ridiculous traffic heading for a massive campsite, and I’ve just been watering the garden. Enjoy this Echinops ritro, because I did (and the camera-shy bees love it too). #bloomscrolling#Wales#garden
Every day I post a Daily #Wales pic, often as an antidote to the shitshow (no apologies for accuracy) that is politics, particularly in the UK. Sometimes - often - it’s beautiful. Mountains, seascapes, woods, y’know? And sometimes it’s a giant ice cream cone on the side of a cafe in Barmouth.
Solstice greeting from a bunch of Welsh sheep sheltering under an ancient hawthorn by a Neolithic chambered tomb. Perfectly normal (and my second Daily #Wales, since the first random scroll pic was so gloomy). #archaeology#cymru#prehistory
Today’s Daily #Wales looks beautiful, but this is a view with a particular history…
It’s Llyn Celyn.
Prior to the building of the dam blocking the Afon Treweryn and the creation of this lake in 1965, the now-drowned valley was home to the village of Capel Celyn. But Liverpool needed water, apparently, so it had to go.
Sea pinks in close up (see today’s Daily #Wales for the impact en masse; these are growing on the rock outcrops just behind the meadows). More #bloomscrolling, because I just love that hashtag!
Daily #Wales today could also be a #bloomscrolling, because these are the tidal meadows filled with sea pinks (Armeria maritima) on the Dwyryd estuary. For a few days, the landscape turns an astonishing colour - the pink haze on the far side of the water? More. Fab! #Cymru#wildflowers
Good morning from Eryri / Snowdonia. Today’s Daily #Wales is ‘the church in the dunes’, St Tanwg’s, from where - allegedly - St Patrick sailed to Ireland. From here and about 76,328 places. #Cymru#history#photography
Daily #Wales time - something a bit different today: the National Slate Museum in Llanberis, which is an amazing place (as well as a photogenic one). Might be a week-long theme, who knows? These are patterns - wooden forms. #photography#Cymru#Eryri#Snowdonia
Daily #Wales this morning is also a #mosstodon (I’m spoilt for choice round here, honestly). Woodland like this is now called ‘Celtic rainforest’, apparently. #woods#trees#woodland#Cymru