One of the many things we did today was take a short trip to Lake Vrynwy just over 11 miles away. What a majestic dam wall! It was built between 1880 and 1890 and is still operational, providing water to Liverpool via aqueduct. The road runs along the top of the dam wall. Very impressive indeed.
Those yellow blooms are cheery marsh marigolds, which I also had at my lakeside home.
We thought this next stream habitat was perfect for wagtails, but we weren't rewarded in our expectations at this point. We saw one later at a puddle in the road! There are also some bluebells on the shore in the foreground. Some hillsides were completely blue with bluebells!
I'm enthralled by the depth and diversity of greens! I loved this sentiment engraved into a fallen tree on the site:
"When we stand, and when we fall, we are home to creatures large and small."
Look at what the human foot traffic has done to this surrounds of this tree! It does show though, how the root network forms a kind of 'net' to hold soil in place.
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