We needed a walk but didn’t want to travel far from home…Thunderbush Moor along the Whiteley Beck valley and then up to North Ings and the wonderful Bride Stones.
The trees planted in the valley are growing well. In a few years this will be a lovely broad leaf woodland
Someone has decorated a tree in memory of a lost friend. Amongst other things they have left a beautiful photograph, a joyful scene.
A painting has been added to the memorial to the two pals who lost their lives during the First World War
The heather is low on the edges of the prehistoric cairnfield, a trio of burial cairns poke through the peat beside the path.
We follow the Bride Stones from the valley head onto Skelderskew Moor .
I wrote a post on the history of this short valley here https://teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/stones-shakespeare-and-men-of-the-moors/
The Smell of Water 
Another good post. That photograph is very moving, isn’t it? I went back and read the earlier post from 2014 you referenced. What is the name of that bleached-out style of photography you used then? It works really well amplifying the contrasts and emphasising the detail on the dark palette of the moors.
Hi Mark, thanks mate. The photos from 2014 were taken in near infrared.
Thank you.
Afine post and the care on the lettering on the memorial is quite moving and it’s still there. Respect. Stay safe, John