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28 June 2007
Inching closer
Up to 7.99 inches today. A few passing showers aren't going to get us to the record, though.
On Tuesday I'm leading a church walk on the moor, taking in some of the prehistoric sites. It's been fascinating discovering them over the past few years. I've also enjoyed working out some of the geology and botany. Going east from Lanshaw Delves, which is a lateral morraine of the Wharfedale glacier, past the Little Skirtful of Stones you come to a green grassy knoll with wild thyme growing on it (in flower, now). This, I think, must be a patch of limey soil, made alkaline by limestone transported from upper Wharfedale. The heather plants shrink to nothing and the grass grows like a sheep's dream!
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