#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 20/Apr/22

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography

A different view today. I used to live in East Yorkshire, a county that’s mostly fairly flat and very arable. Wide skies and fertile fields are the most common features here. This was taken on one our favourite walks from our previous home, in early April. To me it’s an essentially English landscape. What do you think?

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11 thoughts on “#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 20/Apr/22”

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    1. The Wolds are on the northeastern coast of England, so not as wet as our west, but enough rain to keep the landscape a fresh green. Are the prairies mostly used for cereal crops, Lynette? Here in East Yorkshire they grow lots of different crops and also graze cattle and sheep.

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      1. Lots of cereal grains and cattle. There are some sheep, depending on location. Some parts of the original prairie have been preserved and only bison are allowed to graze there. Lots of solar farms are sprouting, though; thousands of kilometres of them. The Canadian prairies are about 1.8 million km2, so there’s a lot of variation with some parts more arable than others.

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    1. The area is mostly flat, Noelle, and the sea lies about 8 miles due east of this spot. The whole area is mostly made up of clay left behind after the Ice Age, and is used for some very productive arable farming. A short distance to the west, and to the north, there are the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Wolds, a beauty spot most people never know of, let alone visit!

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        1. Ah, the Yorkshire Dales, Noelle, where I’ve also lived, is a much more rugged landscape than the Wolds. Many people consider the Dales the best walking country in Europe in fact. But the Wolds bring a much gentler, more tamed landscape with only a few relatively small rounded hills and valleys.

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