This morning Tom, David, Niall, and myself headed to The Tarras valley Nature Reserve ponds to make our way to see Tom's seat which is on the pathway at the furthermost part of the walk where all the trees were felled 2 years ago. It's quite a climb at the start of the walk but we took our time and managed it without much difficulty. Considering the average age of the 4 of us was over 80 we did very well. It's such a lovely place for a walk.
It's only 2 years since the trees were felled but there is considerable growth returning
These white flowers were everywhere.
Most of them growing next to an old tree stump
More of them
Some Fungus growing soon the side of one of the remaining trees
Heading up the hill
Moving back up after our first rest at the seat provided by Rotary
Our first rest on the Rotary Club seat
Loads of Foxgloves everywhere
A lone tree
Tom was glad to have a rest on his very own seat and to prove that he is still very much alive. Somebody saw this seat outside Langholm Initiative offices before it was placed here and they contacted me to ask when Tom had died. He is pleased to report its not a memorial seat and its the only one placed locally that has arm rests
Niall produced a half bottle of whisky and some small shortbread biscuits so we happily toasted Tom and his new seat.
Before this area was planted as a forest it was ordinary fields bounded by these drystane dykes
Heading back down the path to the ponds
Back at the pond area we saw thousands of tiny frogs that have just left the ponds. They were everywhere and so tiny you could hardly see them. This is a much magnified photo provided by Niall
If you are walking in this area please take care for the next few weeks as there are still many thousands of Tadpoles in the ponds still to come out as frogs
One of the remaining tadpoles
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