Pathways

This is part of Cuthbert's Way, a old path to a cave in which monks hid when they were fleeing Lindesfarne. They wanted to take Cuthbert's bones to Durham, where they wouldn't be desecrated by invading Vikings. The purple-colored stuff is heather, and sheep were munching up there among the heather and huge bracken ferns. Brown cows (and some black cows) were in the fields on either side of the public footpath. And, to give you an idea of the scale, the reddish-brown plants on either side of the foot path were about four feet tall.

This is another part of Cuthbert's Way--very straight, and possibly part of an old Roman road, i was told. Conifer forest and a steep hill to the right, old dry stone wall and cows to the left. This path was about five feet wide.

And another road. It isn't paved--those are rock bits pounded into the dirt.