eden valley – Graeme Skinner

Wandering

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:36:38 +0000

A few snaps from our morning wander, some I took just for reference

A mixed bag

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:35:35 +0000

As my head is now fried here’s a mixed bag from yesterday (when we timed some drives from different parts of the area to see if we could live there or not and still get to places we need to be), and some from today on the coast blowing some cobwebs away….

Taken in my perpetual search for the Shire (and somewhere to dig a nice Hobbit hole and hide with a good book or two).

Potholing

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:05:29 +0000

Okay, maybe not, but this is the nearest I’ll get to potholing anyway. We had a wander from Long Meg down to Lacey’s Cave today which was a nice change and worth another look as there’s plenty of locations to pause for reference drawings/photos.

Meg

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:58:08 +0000

Decided to try a watercolour landscape as it felt like too long since I’d painted something So I used one of my recent photos from my wander around Long Meg Stone Circle.

Long Meg, A3, Watercolour

Short wander

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:51:18 +0000

We had a little wander this morning before my week and the grindstone starts…

Morning wander

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 11 May 2025 16:09:25 +0000

We went for a wander from Dufton this morning towards the Pennines, was a nice change of scene…

Down to the stones

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:21:19 +0000

When we visited Long Meg last year and took a few photos (here), I intended to use a few of them as references for paintings, it took a while longer than anticipated to start but that’s the way things go anyway, this one may be finished. Or at least, it’s finished for now…

Long Meg, 20″x16″

Balls

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:01:16 +0000

Decided to try something a bit different at Long Meg this afternoon…

180 degrees

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:02:56 +0000

We had a quick Boxing Day wander this morning up the lane. Managed to take a couple of panoramic pics, one looking towards the Pennines and the other towards the Lakeland Fells, the light was rather different

Down the valley

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:46:00 +0000

Quick snap….