Issues Road, Holme

We had unwelcome visitors on Boxing Day, enough to curtail hound exercise for reasons of safety and sense. Seeing as how it was due to be on some of the best beagling country ever I was only too happy when the farmers and keeper enthusiastically allowed us to rearrange the meet for the following Saturday....

 The View Across to Emley Moor Mast

 Hardly needs saying...but...A hare...

A very good day was had by all, and what a field, over 40 regulars & newcomers braved the elements to watch some excellent hound-work.


Happy New Year one & all!

A Quick Walk Between the Downpours.....

Some of these ought perhaps to be contenders for the Valley Pictures project, but it's hard to know what people might buy, or even like.

Holme Styes. Today.

Blogger & Google +

Why oh why are they not properly aligned?

On the dashboard page I can click on virtually anything, including "New post" and at times absolutely nothing happens. I would totally ditch G+ if I could and go back to the old system, which was intuitive and fairly simple for the most-part. This current one is too much for me.

I suspect it's because I'm still a proponent of Firefox, rather than the alternatives. If I was a regular Chrome user then it would probably all be integrated and simple to use, but I'm not, so will struggle on.....

Another View

Off Centre

A Word to the Wise

Soays

 

 

  


(As ever, click on the photos for "full-size".)

New Venture

Nearly another month...bum.

It might start something, it might not, but Valley Pictures is my new venture for now.

Currently it's not a hunt related thing, just a picture one. In time I hope to update everything onto my  Photobox album(s) but as yet am killing waaaay too much time editing the actual pictures, so it's not happening just yet. It will, so bear with me.

There will be certain beagle related pictures from which I will happily donate the proceeds to the CVB, but in time, when I get there.....

 

Prints, enlargements, posters, or post-cards, Christmas and other more secular greetings cards, calendars or whatever anyone requests...just let me know....please!

There are currently only two posts on the site, so it won't take long to check it out............ 

(Absolutely NOT one of mine.)

A New Season Begins

7.00 am on the side of the hill over looking Diggle, in fact over looking several of the Saddleworth villages, the 2013-14 season began, or at least the first of the early morning pre-season meets did, which is more or less the same thing...

A bit damp to begin with, and breezy, but after a lot of rain the day and night before it seemed as if there was plenty of scent around.

 A bit of a "noisy" picture, but it was only just after 7 am and the sun hadn't really got up so the light was appalling, still, with a bit of fiddling about in "Lightroom" these are passable, at least I think they are....

 This hare happened to pass me by close enough to get a few shots off, given how poor the light was at the time I am quite pleased how these turned out....

And especially this one...

 The ladies keeping an eye on things...

 A distant whip..

Time for home........

A cracking start to the season, it has been a very long summer after all.....

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