Millennia pass.
Continents collide.
Oceans swell, ebb, freeze.
Rocks accrete…
..and, in England, form
its nubbly spine: the Pennines.
Men gathered scattered stones - erected walls, marching across dales, hills, moors holding fast the sheep or meadowland. These stony barricades are the landscape - like the rocks from which they came.
For Rebecca of Fake Flamenco’s November Poetry Challenge: Stone.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Excellent write, you’ve really conjured up the landscape!
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Thanks Sue. You can’t help thinking ‘geology’ in the Dales.
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Indeed
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Perfect match of words and photos; you’ve captured the essence of what I think of when I consider the Yorkshire landscape
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Ah, thanks Sandra. I guess you’re getting to know it these days.
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I love this, both words and images 🙂 You do live in the perfect location to photograph stone!
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Oh, don’t I just. Thank you!
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I’d love to go hiking there. And I really love those dry-stone walls. They are so full of character and the fit so well with the surrounding country. Thanks for sharing!
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Oh, I’m a huge fan of drystone walls, and it’s so good that the skill of building and repairing them isn’t a dying one, but widely practised.
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I have a friend who lives in Sunderland who goes on field trips with some sort of nature society where they restore and rebuild drystone walls.
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Excellent. There are quite a lot of these groups, but might it be Open Country, which makes a point of including people with severe learning difficulties?
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I think it’s with the National Trust but I’m not sure.
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The best medicine in the world!
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Absolutely!
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That’s an impressive stretch of drystone wall. We have the same here on the edge of the Cotswolds although not such dramatic landscape to go with it.
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And I love it that all our drystone walls are in a slightly different style: even here in Yorkshire there are several regional variations.
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Such skilled work, too.
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Yes! Patience, a good eye and a bucket of hand cream required I think.
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Love those stone fences. So photogenic!
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They are, aren’t they? Are they part of the American countryside?
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Brilliant!
Poetry and photography.
Your love for the Pennines is evident.
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Ah indeed. So many if my favourite places here.
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Lovely
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Excellent gallery.
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Thanks, Andrew.
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Lovely words and pictures (of which my favourites are the last too for the plants and textures of the walls).
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Yes, those old walls weather so well,and provide a home for quite a range of plant life.
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amazing words and photos! thank you for this work of art
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Ah, thank you.
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In praise of stones – a fine creation in words and images, Margaret.
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Thanks,Tish.
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I adore this post Margaret 😀
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Thank you Cee.
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A beautiful post – words and pictures. My sweetheart’s part of America has very little stone and the fields are very expansive. He always marvels at our dry stone walls.
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I think they’re one of Britain’s glories, and often appreciated by visitors. Glad he likes them!
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Wow Margaret – this is really beautifully done. Between the images and your writing about them you really tell a marvelous story. Gorgeous post I was quite honestly enchanted by it!
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Oh Tina, what a lovely thing to say. Thank you.
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Lovely images and words! Thank goodness we still have so many walls and they haven’t all been swept away by “progress”.
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The material to mend and make is readily available. Why alter a winning formula, eh?
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Oh the love of stone, you’ve really captured it.
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Ah, thank you. I had fun anyway.
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