Sunday 26 December 2010

Knitting in the Pyrenees


Knitting in the Pyrenees
Originally uploaded by bykercolin
This photograph was taken in 2008 while I was walking the GR11 footpath from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

This is my with my knitting up by Balneario de Panticosa.

Knitting at The Combe, Borrowdale

I did this piece in November 2010. It is in a very quiet valley on the path to nowhere. When I was here last year there were shepherds gathering in their sheep - whistleing to their dogs, shouting accross the Combe and the sun was shining.

I spent a day up there in November 2010 to do some painting and just to look. There were two people rock climbing a large crag and that was it, most walkers keep to the path up to Glaramara.

There are a couple of sheepfolds - one at the head of the valley and one just as it falls down to Borrowdale. There is a fantastic rock coloured red by sheep after they have been smit marked.

An all round amazing Lakeland valley.