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Nice. Looks like "Last of the Summer Wine" country. How brown does it get during summer?
Generally it stays green, the only pictures I have which look less green were these ones in the hot, dry (all relative of course) summer 2006, when some of the local moorland caught fire for the first time in 30 years (and the batteries ran out the moment I wanted to take a picture of orange sunset colours which took up half the sky). There was a drought in the mid-90s which was probably worse than 2006 when we had water restrictions, but I don't have any photos from then. In my experience the grass in the southeast of England generally goes yellow for a month or so in summer unless it's been a wet year.
Depends on your definition of stark, I suppose. Generally the landscape is quite green and gentle and fertile, but gets more rugged the further north and west you go, though particularly up north a lot of overcast winter days look stark and bleak. You only have to go up as far as about 1000-1200ft to get stark, moorland landscapes with peat bogs and heather that look a lot higher up than 1000ft anywhere else I've been. Here are some overcast pictures of the Yorkshire countryside, some starker than others:
Some really nice photos there. Stark is not what comes to mind for me.
Seeing those photos, I have to plan another trip to the UK. Probably be heading to Liverpool area as that's where a good friend of mine here in Philly is from. Never been to Yorkshire though.
Those photos are more dark and gray than stark to me except for a few of the last. What season were they taken in?
Do you live in Yorkshire? I thought Hampstead is in London.
I live in London now about two miles from Hampstead, but am from the Yorkshire countryside originally. Most of those photos were taken in midwinter, but on a cloudy, overcast day on some of the moors even July can look like winter.
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) summer 2006, when some of the local moorland caught fire for the first time in 30 years (and the batteries ran out the moment I wanted to take a picture of orange sunset colours which took up half the sky
