Mountains and Flowers

.... And some good company too!

A treat this afternoon to be invited to join a couple of good friends on a walk up from Abergynolwyn to the abandonned quarries at Bryn Eglwys.   When we first came here there were much more extensive remains of the activity of the quarrymen, even though the slate extraction had ceased a quarter of a century before.  The Talyllyn was built to transport slates from these quarries to the coast where they were loaded from the wharf at Tywyn TR station straight into wagons on the Cambrian Railway.    

The walk took us through woodland along the Nant Gwernol ravine before rising up to the natural bowl where the quarrying once took place.  Forestry Commission plantings have come and gone over the decades I have known the place.   In the seventies we had scrambled up the old inclines to reach the quarry but today the paths are largely more circuitous, avoiding the Health and Safety disasters that the inclines might involve!  A lovely day for it and as we arrived at what was our summit for today, the views around were super and at our feet, growing in the spoil heaps were myriad starry flowers of Sedum anglicum.   An extra pic to show the setting.

Not Switzerland but I did enjoy the mountains and the flowers here today ..... and it was great to catch up with old friends :-)

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