Coledale Fells, Braithwaite, Cumbria, England

This scene may go some way to explaining how floods got to devastating in November 2009. In a way, it looks incongruous to have level ground and hills side by side. It's what amazed me about the eastern end of Glen Coe on my first ever journey through the glen. Whatever about the oddness of the juxtaposition, it was a deluge upon the Borrowdale hills that filled up Derwentwater so much that it joined up with Bassenthwaite Lake to create a larger and more devastating body of water that flooded much of Keswick and whose flow was to cause of human life in Workington.

On a warm sunny day in August, these things are furthest from your mind and it is the possibility of dehydration that is a concern rather than having too much water. In fact, you get to wondering at the delicateness of the greenery in the warm sunshine. On the day that I captured this vista, I was on my way elsewhere but, looking at it now, I am reminded that I have yet to explore hills such as Grisedale Pike, Hopegill Head, Sand Hill, Crag Hill and Grasmoor after a speculative amble into Coledale a few years back. It's nice to be reminded that there are sights unseen and heights unscaled in a well frequented and wonderful part of the world.