Cromford & Alderwasley (Part 2)

This stretch of the canal is covered in duckweed. It takes on a whole different look, doesn't it?

After the walk along the canal, the path wends up through Ambergate woods. This stile takes you into the woods.

I really was staggered to see this new flower! It's what I call cow parsley, but the name's not important - what IS important, is that it's growing like it should in APRIL, but it's the middle of NOVEMBER????? All around it were it's brothers and sisters - dead - brown after a month or more without nourishment?

This was the destination for lunch - the Bear Inn, at Alderwasley. It's a lovely looking pub, but I think it's very expensive. However, it gets packed every weekend, so they must be doing something right!

The final part of the walk was down through the beautifull copper woods. It was a delight to walk over the carpet of leaves. We heard a few birds, but saw no wildlife to speak of, not even a squirrel!

This is Mavis & Steven, walking ahead in the woods.

I thought this path looked just about the best of the day. What do you think? I couldn't wait to walk on it and kick the leaves up.

At the end of the day, we were treated to this lovely sky. We'd had a little drizzle but, hey - this is England in November, it COULD be SNOWING!!!!!