Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Tag: contrails

  • First of the year’s cottongrass

    First of the year’s cottongrass

    A glorious morning, blue skies with contrails lingering. And not a breath of wind. On Great Ayton Moor.

  • Little Blakey Howe

    Little Blakey Howe

    A bronze age burial mound, or “round barrow” on Blakey Ridge above Rosedale. The stone was erected as a boundary stone in the eighteenth century and is probably a reused standing stone of older antiquity. The contrails high amongst the cirrus clouds can be used as a navigation aid. “Contrails” is an American word, a…