I don’t have a problem being alone. As an only child who was often uprooted while growing up, I was used to my own company. Nowadays, though I value family and friends, time to myself is important too. My happiest memories of lockdown are of the Daily Exercise we were permitted, when I’d take myself off to enjoy the differences each day made on familiar daily walks, and discover new tracks and pathways.
Here’s a rather random gallery of landscapes that may meet the needs of the solitary walker. Put on your hiking boots and yes, why not? We’ll go and enjoy them together.
…. and then you could just go off by yourself if you wanted …
For Ann-Christine AKA Leya’s Lens-Artists Challenge #238 Alone Time
The header image is from l’Albufera, near Valencia, Spain, where I had a wonderfully solitary afternoon and evening one November about four years ago.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Aside from Kiplin Hall, you weren’t in too much danger of meeting people on those walks, Margaret. Love those winding Dales roads and the moorland. Hang on! I’m catching you up.
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You can interrupt my solitary walk any time Jo!
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Love that third image of the wiggly road with drystone walls, the lone sheep, and the lone tree….great set!
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Thanks Sue. I wondered about putting that road in, but it does fit, somehow..
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My kind of road….
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Thank you so much. I think you might have said something but I think I was enjoying the views too much!🙂😉
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Far better than listening to me wittering on 😉
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What a heavenly spot! We were in Spain earlier this week. It is a lovely country. And yes, I’d love to take a walk with you! Your photos are beautiful.
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Thanks Patti. Off to Spain again soon, for a wedding. Can’t wait!
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Wonderful! Where are you going?
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To our daughter, near Barcelona. It’s her sister-in-law who’s getting married and we’re so touched to have been invited too.
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It took working from home as a freelance to make me discover walking alone although I tend to march much too fast and not look properly which you clearly know how to do.
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I’m a bit of a fast walker too, but have learnt to slow down.
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I should follow your example
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I especially like the windy road/lane picture.
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That looks as if it might be the winning shot!
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Almost certainly!
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Bliss! That header shot transports me in a heartbeat.
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I’ll never forget that evening. It was bliss indeed.
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You are blessed with some beautiful scenery for your walks! I love the winding road, and I see that sheep has made a welcome return appearance 🙂 As for the opening shot, just gorgeous!
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That was one of those experiences I’ll remember for my whole life. Serene and utterly beautiful. And sheep? Well, they’re two a penny round here. That road seems to be going down rather well. It was one ridden in 2014 as part of the Tour, the year that the Tour de France started off in Yorkshire.
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Was that nine years ago?!! Time flies …
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I know. It’s the year we came back to England 😦
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It’s uplifting to see your wide vistas. My sister walks very much as you do. I am accused of lingering over finds along the way, as you can probably imagine.
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That’s no crime. But going alone, you don’t get moaned at.
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Great photos. I’d walk with you any day. But then it wouldn’t be solitary I suppose.
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I’d love a walk with you too. I enjoy walking with friends just as much as walking alone.
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Thanks, Margaret.
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Like many others here I love the winding road. You have some beautiful landscapes to walk in Margaret. I reckon you’d soon leave me behind though as I am always stopping to look in the hedgerows or take a photo. Although I often walk with the OH we are usually lost in our own thoughts.
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Best that way. You don’t notice a thing if you’re chattering.
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What a lovely walk. Thank you. I much prefer a wiggly road to a Roman road, provided there are no SUV’s in the region!
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And that, I’m afraid, I can’t guarantee.
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It either those, electric scooters, or quad bikes!
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Love your selections for this one, Margaret! I really enjoy the peacefulness of your images.
The winding road is beautifully captured, so are the rest!
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That winding road seems to be a favourite!
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I’d love to walk your countryside, Margaret, it radiates beauty and calm…and on that winding road I’m with the others – love it. If you are as quiet as I am, you might tolerate my company!
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I’d relish your company, Anne-Christine!
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And I yours! Maybe some day…
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A reminder, Margaret, that we can find solace in solitude. I LOVE your walks.
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And I’d love for us to do a walk together.
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I have a feeling that one day we will take that walk together!
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I am rather puffed now Margaret but had a lovely time trailing after you 🙂
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I don’t believe it. You’d outpace me easily!
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I probably would stop more to take photos 😁
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Great photos, beautiful places.
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And I’m lucky to have most of them so close by too.
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Very frustrated as I tried to post a comment three times but it wouldn’t ‘take’. Here it is again: Agree with you on precious and much-needed alone time…All the photos are gorgeous but my favourite is the one with the reeds by the lake. And the curious sheep!
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WP seems to be fully occupied in changing over to Jetpack. Quite frustrating. Yes, that lakeside is a favourite place. As is that sheep and where she lives.
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What beautiful examples. I could feel myself in that delicious aloneness as I explored each photo.
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Ah, good. I wanted to share the joy.
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A beautiful post Margaret – Having had 4 brothers I think I enjoy my alone time at least as much as you do!! Just loved the long image of the walled path!
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I bet you appreciated alone-time! And that walked path is, believe it or not, a fully-functioning road for cars, lorries, 4x4s… Not great when you meet someone coming the other way 😉
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Lovely photos!
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Thank you!
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You’re very welcome!
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oh these are wonderful Margaret, and like you thanks to an uprooted childhood (and whilst not an only a child the age gap was such I might has well have been) I am good at being alone – thank goodness I say to myself these days!
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Exactly. There’s a lot to be said for it.
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Ah now you know one of the main benefits of walking alone be it rural or urban, inside or out, is that you can pause and take your time to take beautiful photographs and not feel you are delaying companions. Methinks your selection proves my point admirably.
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Exactly. Pleasing Number One has a lot to recommend it.
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I’m with you about the importance of ‘alone time’. Your handsome brown cow, above, looks as though he’s separated himself for a bit of ‘quality time’ from the herd!
How lucky we are to be able to have both – too much of one or the other can be a difficult thing! xx
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Exactly. I wouldn’t be either a good hermit, or as one of the – very large – crowd.
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