Evening bike run to check out the pretty spot near Lowna.
I did some photos of bluebells, garlic and waterfalls but nothing very exciting - it was getting rather too late really.
However liked this pic of the fog swirling around upper Farndale on the way down there.
At home it had been vile most of the day.
This is always a fascinating place but not as easy as you might hope to photograph effectively.
The low evening sunlight helped and it's a drone shot - but could probably have almost got the same by walking further down from the road.
The video reveals at least three significant ponds but they may not be always full.
The confusing hillocks in various sizes are practically all the result of a long series of landslides dating back to the last ice age.
At that time the Esk Valley including Fryup was for a while a substantial lake due to the North Sea being filled with an immense ice sheet.
Water got away to the south through NewtonDale and probably to the north past Comondale and West House at different periods.
I saw a couple of shots of this place near Ripon on Flickr - but there aren't many as it only opens on a few days mainly in the spring. - So decided to go over there on the bike last Friday. It took a little over an hour going by the more scenic route through Thirsk rather than A168.
The building is rather lovely with encircling moat and neat garden.
Inside you can visit a few principal rooms - the Hall and Chapel mainly
You enter by the undercroft which would have been storage and Kitchen - still perhaps the most interesting room.
The house history is quite turbulent and violent, more info on their website. It is still more or less a grand farmhouse but the tenant farmer lives in a converted range down one side of the yard.
