We are so lucky that we have such beauty on our doorsteps, here in Leek, the surrounding areas, the Queen of the Moorlands.
As a family we took our opportunity in todays Sunshine, to explore Tittesworth Reservoir, the children love to play and kick a ball on the wide area of grass beyond the cafe or the younger one, playing in the sand or just generally clambering about on the mass of play equipment, however the play equipment, the grass (and the dog show that was held at Tittesworth today) is only part of the idyllic beauty of Tittesworth, there is also the reservoir itself and the surrounding grasslands, trees, woods, and of course the many different species of ducks.
One part of Staffordshire moorlands we wished to view today but without correct shoe wear or a map to behold we did not get to Lud's church, we will get there eventually! However, I took the opportunity whilst at Tittesworth to capture the wonderfulness of Tittesworths nature.
Above and below, the splendour of a landscape capture of Tittesworth reservoir.
(and again at an angled perspective)
Another beautiful feature (as mentioned above), is the variety of ducks which fly into Tittesworth. Today we have seen, regular white english geese, your average english duck (hen/female), and also about One swan (which was being fed by some visitors further up the bank from where I captured the above photos).
Here are some lovely captures of the ducks we saw today (desperately wanting my 'dutch chocolate' ice cream but were getting none of it).
One of my friends said today... in view of one of these captures of Canadian Geese...
"Ah yes. All Canadians go abroad for the summer, even the winged ones!" (Thanks Shauna)
And to end the day, well actually yesterday, which showed we would have a lovely sunny, warmish day today, was red skies. I managed to capture this "red sky at night.." over Leekbrook on Saturday evening (12th July 2008) before spending lots of time on websites and blog editing.
