Winter Shades of Dartmoor
Wild, wet Dartmoor . . . where battering winds bring shades of sun, heavy cloud and fine bullets of icy rain in sweeping shifts of primeval restlessness.
Greetings from Cosdon Beacon and Happy New Year wishes to you all!
It looks very wild.
Have a good 2013.
It was so wild up there! Thank you Harry and all best to you for 2013!
When we lived in Somerset I used to visit Dartmoor a lot. Can be really eerie in places….best wishes for the New Year
Those clouds come over and down in no time but the peace and quiet up there is unbelievably good, don’t you think? Happy New Year to you Mike!
Happy New Year, Patti!
Love the wild quilted panoramas!
Looking forward to more, please!
Happy New Year to you Annie and so pleased you enjoy the views!
Stunning landscape. Your photos beautifully capture the almost primeval atmosphere. I hope 2013 brings you great happiness and more fantastic photos!
Thank you so much Alison, it really is so bleak up there and feels a world away from the warmth of the indoors. Best wishes to you for a wonderful year and more great views from your part of the world!
A year filled with all good things is my wish for you. Xxoo Ruth
Ruth, please accept my good wishes for you and your family! Thank you so much!
have a great photographic 2013! the place look exactly as i imagine it when i read/hear about it…
Maybe you might get to visit one day! Thank you Olive and all best to you for a wonderful 2013!
Sheesh Patti, These are downright gorgeous. The light is so divine. These images have the feeling of legend, myth, and magic. I’m simply blown away.
You would love it up there Terry! It was tough at the top, keeping two feet on the ground, trying to get any photos without getting almost blown away.
How wonderful, One almost expects that you might have come across the ghosts of Cathy and Heathcliff in such a dramatic landscape. Or at the very least, the hound of the Baskervilles.
Pip Pip and Happy New Year!
The winds up there certainly howl with the spirits of Cathy and Heathcliff, not to mention the Hound. . . . I am often tempted to howl away my frustrations up there but the effort of getting up to the top takes it all away and induces great calm and relaxation.
Happy New wishes to you dear Lanier!
Yes – the first thing I thought of was Wuthering Heights, too.
Patti, I had to up periscope and wish you a Happy New Year! All the best to you and yours in 2013!
Lovely to see you here, thank you Allan, and so many best wishes to you for a wonderful New Year!
Your eye takes me traveling. I expected a tall, slender figure in long coat and deerstalker hat enter from the right. Happy New Year Patti. Keep shooting.
I know he’s out there somewhere . . . . Happy New Year and thank you Tom!
Vast and desolately beautiful landscape! Thank you for showing it to us Patti. Happy beginning of the year!
A little vast desolation does wonders for clearing the cobwebs don’t you think! Happy New Year to you Paula and all best for a warm and healthy start for your 2013!
There is a bleakness to this beauty. Your description makes it really live Patti.
It is such a wild and wonderful part of the world – what you would make of it with your paint brushes, Philippa!
would love to have a go – need to be rugged up against the wind I imagine!
And I thought it was bleak here in London 😉 Nice set of shots Patti 🙂
Bleak paradise down here Martin! Happy New Year wishes to you and your family!
Broody and Wuthering Heightsish! You have captured the mood as effortlessly as you capture people 🙂
That perfect place for getting away from it all to brood, wonder and wander! Thank you Madhu and all best to you for your 2013 wanderings!
Love the bleakness in these shots. Have a wonderful 2013, Patti!
Thank you Richard, I find a little bleak goes a long way down here on Dartmoor! Looking fwd to you getting back on the streets of London and all best for 2013!
It does look cold…
but very beautiful, too!
Wishing you the very best in 2013, Ms. K! A very, very happy new year to you!
🙂
Thank you so much SiG! Strange where we find beauty and exhilaration – I say this knowing palm tree fringed winter sunset getaways are sort of never going to happen! Happy New Year greetings to you!
The water in the third photo — is that a river, or just a small lake? When I saw the ripples, I thought it might be from a cold wind. “…fine bullets of icy rain” was exactly what I felt.
Happy New Year, Patti.
That water is rainfall in a holding pattern waiting for a way down from the soggy boggy ground up at the top! Drought last year, flooding this year . . . .
Happy New Year to you Charles, off to visit your fabulous brain in a jar!
home again …
…I am sailing, Rod Stewart …
Oh Frizz, I have history with this song, trouble with a capitol T . . .! More on that later, maybe!
This was something different. I like these landscapes too, even if they are a little bit more familiar to me than urban streets. Happy New Year and best of luck in 2013, Patti!
Back to the urban streets soon enough Bente! Thank you so much for best wishes and wishing you a wonderful 2013!
Happiest of new year’s wishes to you and yours 🙂
Given that it looks to crack 40C here today … this looks beautifully refreshing 🙂
Geoff, I have been hearing about your dreadful heatwave. Keep cool and hope it passes quickly without too much drama!
Happy New Year and best wishes to you for a great 2013!
Fantastic shots, Patti, but such a grim place for Christmas … 🙂
I have to tell you Meredith I have a fondness for grim which makes this perfect for Christmas! I am hoping that one year I might be able to take a packed Christmas lunch up to the top and dine in style in the shelter of one of the stone circles!
Illustrations for every grim English detective story set on the moors that I’ve ever read!
Must be strange to be there in person. But then again, maybe not.
Happy New Year to you, Patti, here, there, and everywhere.
Oh, you were near me!! I’m in Exeter, so I visit Dartmoor often – but my this year it was bleak! The grey is still here too..when will it end?!
I am so late with replies . . . but it was so bleak this year! Hope it’s better for you now but how much snow did you get in Exeter? I keep reading about the latest “chaos!”
I am sure you have some absolutely spectacular photos of Dartmoor!
Quite splendid! All that rain…..
It is scenes like these that make me really want to visit England and work it over with a camera.
Hope you get there soon Derrick, I would love to see your camera views – plenty of wide open spaces there, you would love it!
If not for the airplane ride… which I DETEST! Maybe I can take a boat?? 🙂
Hi patti, happy new year to you my friend..
I remember something with this photo of yours, It seem like the scene from the movie War horse by steven spielberg.
nice shots my friend.
Michael Morpurgo, who wrote the book War Horse, lives in Devon and yes, Steven Spielberg used the spectacular Dartmoor as the backdrop for the film version.
Thank you for kind words John! Did you enjoy the film?
yes so much..that was one of my favorite. I just really love the cinematography and the story as well..
Looks like a cold and somewhat eerie place during winter lights. So desolated and vast. And so different from what it looks like in the summer.
great view 🙂
Wishing you all the joys and blessings for the New Year. Stunning images.
I really love those pictures. Keep sharing such great things!
This is really gorgeous!
There’s a beauty in this bleakness, but I know I wouldn’t want to be left there at night. I’m such an urban Pie. A proper wuss.
And Pie, there’s no wuss like a proper wuss! You have your unique place in the urban slice of life and I love you for it!
(I do bleak so you never have to!)
Beautiful. Wild and all stitched together at the same time.