Lake district

Sorry I have not posted for a while, I was on a self portrait course three weeks ago and then got back home to a very nasty session with sinusitis with a very swollen eye and feeling pretty rotten for a long time!!!

Here is the painting of the fisherman from Æro I promised to show, I need to work a little bit more at it, I am not satisfied with one of the hands yet. It is 90x100cm painted on canvas with acrylic. The forerunner to this one is here http://acdenn.blogspot.com/2010/09/fisherman.html, which one do you prefer?

I was in the Lake District last month enjoying the autumn colours. I stayed in a lovely place called Ambleside. From here I managed to travelled all over with a couple of full day trips in a minibus and walked a couple of days for 4-5 hours. It was a wonderful holiday, enjoyed every minute of it. It is strange looking back to the autumn landscape with 20cm of snow outside at the moment!

I walked from Ambleside to Grasmere the last day, it is a really beautiful trip! This is Rydal water and the next photo shows Grasmere Lake.

Other Scenes from this walk, I did not go over the stepping stones but they look charming don't they ;-)

 

Talked to this fella, baaaaa was his answer, a very sensible conversation indeed :-)

This is Kirkstone Pass .

Castlerig stone circle outside of Keswich, it has a magnificent view all around it.

The next photos are from a walk I did at the beginning of the week.

As well as talking to sheep I had a 'chat' with this lovely cow, who stuck her tongue out in appreciation ... ha ha! I walked passed her into the field to the left to be met by an adolescent bull who really gave me the 'don't mess around with me' mean look. Ups, I retreated, waited until the bull was busy looking the other way and almost ran through the field until I was 'safe'.  The lake seen here is Windermere.

The World Owl Trust at Muncaster Castle is Europe's biggest owl sanctuary. I was in the castle too, interesting place.