Driving from Penzance to Wales.

[urbpan]

Getting from Penzance to Wales was a simple matter of crossing half the country on narrow tunnels through the trees. Quite beautiful if you aren't thinking about the inches of clearance between your car, oncoming traffic, and the wall on the other side (solid shoulder, I believe they called it). As British understatement and subtlety appears to extend to road signage, we got lost again. Whilst trying to find a place to turn around we blundered into Dartmoor (or perhaps someplace else--need to check that one with Dad. Anyway, carry on!)




We pulled into a little rest area type place where taciturn locals eyed us suspiciously.


Green and misty is how I like it.


Also the moss and lichens like it.


I believe I'm seeing crustose lichens growing on foliose lichens here.




Places like this knock me off-kilter.

Comments

[alpacacock.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is all so stunning. What a lovely place to be!

[temeres.livejournal.com]

The sodden valleys of southwest England have been described as 'temperate rainforest'. This has been a dry-ish summer: after a wet one, they can be really lush.

In case you didn't know (since you don't say), the songbird is a Chaffinch.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

I didn't know this morning when I posted it, but I consulted an expert on British birds in order to identify it (apparently one of the commonest garden birds here, like asking to identify a titmouse back home).

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so much that we got lost (at this point), it was that we pulled off at an exit that didn't have an entrance going the right direction, so we had to backtrack a mile. Still, one of the best "wrong" turns of the trip.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I like how much work you put into explaining that one. I could barely guess that it was Dartmoor!

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

It took me five minutes.

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures!!!

[whatisbiscuits.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, takes me back to my Devon/Cornwall walking/camping holiday a couple of years ago. Rained the whole time, but after London's building filled horizons it was lovely to see open fields and trees. Driving is tricky in narrow roads, but has the advantage of not requiring wading through muddy/cow poo filled field after field.