#ScenicSaturday 2nd March 2024:

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Recent months have seen me featuring only photographs taken in that specific month, though not necessarily the current year. I think, with the UK entering meteorological spring on 1st March, I’ll include some slightly warmer climes to cheer up the often-dull March days.

Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean and was taken in March 2020. The valley forms part of the route of one of our favourite walks. We sometimes climb up it, but only when we’re feeling energetic. It’s a lot steeper than it appears in the picture! On those days we’re feeling less lively, we allow gravity to aid our progress and stumble down instead, after climbing a rather less demanding, but longer, route.

The valley is relatively narrow and is lined with oaks around 100 years old. It leads to a wider path in the wider valley that houses the beaver enclosure. As yet, we haven’t seen these industrious creatures, but the evidence of their activities is clear for all to see. And their dam building has done the job they were introduced to do; stop the brook from flooding the village.

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11 thoughts on “#ScenicSaturday 2nd March 2024:”

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      1. Many locations seem to be getting snow instead of the mild weather they usually get. We escaped it here in the valley – we had rain instead – but given our drought recovery situation, moisture is needed and welcome. Cheers.

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        1. We’ve had the warmest February on record here in England and Wales, Lynette. Just one more sign that climate change is actually happening, but still the politicians and business magnates act as though there’s no threat at all to the environment.

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          1. I agree; the majority of people are ignoring it. For the most part here, too. A couple of Green Party politicians are speaking up as much as they can but are being shouted down in parliament. A couple of provincial premiers are also talking about it, but the problem is that we need a critical mass of people to push along the necessary environmental protections.

            Speaking of your warm February, one of our big central provinces (Ontario) had thunderstorms and hail last month! The season for that type of weather is May-September, so they’re already heating up to very abnormal levels. May weather in February is not a good thing.

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            1. Public awareness and concern is patchy worldwide, Lynette. And the more ‘advanced’ and ‘civilised’ the country, generally speaking, the less convinced are the people. Under the surface, most people know we have a serious crisis approaching, but they also understand that to prevent it we all need to change our lifestyles to something more eco-friendly, and too many people think that’s a move too far. Comfort is more important than some environmental threat they fail to fully acknowledge. In a few years, when the flooding, drought, wildfires, and resulting starvation become undeniable results of our species failure to act, more people will come aboard the eco barge. By then, of course, it will be too late to halt the devastation we face.

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              1. Yes, I agree. The red flags are wildly flapping but no one wants to give anything up and worse, we have people actively denying that there’s anything wrong. Business as usual has gotten us into a lot of trouble in the past, but we never learn from it.

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