The hills to the north-east of Moffat. Swatt Fell is in the distance,
Blaebeck Farm is the left of the two white dots
In fact the farm does not nestle among trees, as this photo implies, this is an angle catching trees some distance from the building
This page continues the series on the upper reaches of Annandale and Nithsdale. Annan Water flows down the former from the Devil's Beeftub, north of Moffat, to the sea at Annan. This valley has a division near its head, in the higher reaches of which lies Blaeback Farm, a couple of miles into the hills north of Moffat, and just beyond the sulphurous well that made Moffat famous in the later part of the eighteenth century.
In front of the farm, to its south, lie some large grazing fields. Around, and beyond the farm, the land is rough bracken and grass which is used for sheep and cattle grazing. The ability of breads, which can spend the winter out on the hillsides, is a necessary virtue. The photos below also feature Hind Hill, which lies just west of the farm - to the left as you look at this photo
The grazing fields in front of Blaebeck Farm
Peeping out from Gallowhill, the farm is at the upper left, and Blaebeck Cottage by the central trees
Across to the hill, south-east of the farm, is this unusually shaped large sheep-fold
Bleabeck Farm and cottage in the winter snow - uncommonly this deep
Tucked at the bottom of Greygill Head (towards the bottom left corner) is a more conventional circular sheep-fold
Affirmation that it is sheep country - here by Hind Hill
...and here ewes pose under Greygill Head's flank
Dark clouds set off this rainbow, whose pot of gold lies in the fields shown higher up the page
And a rainbow for Hind Hill - with disinterested sheep
More sheep concentrating on the one in front
Autumn mist gathering around Hind Hill
Varied light on the fields that...
...lie just in front of the Farm
Hind Hill in winter
Introducing the Skien Stone, by Hind Hill, and its tree
Designated the Bannock Stone on O.S. maps
Seen from this angle, it would seem a skien/knife had cut the stone
And, without snow, it blends into the undulations
Back to Greygill head with an unusual two layered cloud
Sometimes (well quite often really) the cloud comes down and the hills are not present, the resulting grey cover seems to enhance autumn colours
Greygill Head with Bleabeck Farm at its foot
Round a little and Swatt fell forms the far backdrop
Leaving Blaebeck on a soft spring day
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The last page had photos from just to the west, across Annan Water, of the ones above
To somewhere with no snow - the south coast of Tenerife
To some real snow and ice - a glacier in Iceland
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