Here we are again, on the edge of the Cumbrian Fells near Millom. Today's pictures focus on the cloudy skies (perhaps a common feature in this part of the country) but over the next few days you will see that the clouds gave way to a beautiful sunny clear evening.
The first picture shows the view from the campsite as I was pitching up around about 4pm. It looked a bit ominous but fortunately it did not develop into anything.
The campsite was along a narrow lane referred to on my Sat Nav as "the alley" but known locally as "the frying pan". The story behind the name is that about 100 years ago a man staying in a guest house on the lane had stayed out late at a local pub. He returned very late in a drunken state and then slept late in the morning. The landlady having had a disturbed night refused to serve the man breakfast and as a consequence he killed her. He was hanged for his crime in Carlisle.
The second picture was of clouds forming over Ulverston, they were quite dramatic, and I like the way the big Cumulus cloud rose up through the other layers of cloud.
Picture three is looking inland across the marina with a glimpse of the old harbour wall. The original harbour wall collapsed sometime around 1900. This a result of the old mine workings under the sea bed having caved in. The current marina was formed in 1905 when the "new" sea wall was built.
The final picture today is more about the shadows cast on the mountainside by the clouds and the glimpse of light breaking through.
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