As we walked up Summer Hill, one of the lower hills that lead to the summit of Worcestershire Beacon in the Malvern Hills, we paused to look out over the Herefordshire landscape. From this vantage point it is a chequerboard of fields of pasture and crops, each bordered by hedgerows, with plentiful areas of woodland, all laid across undulations and ridges that stretch into the distance where, faintly, a low cloud, higher hills and mountains can be seen. Farms, rural houses, hamlets and villages can be glimpsed through the trees and the red Herefordshire soil is revealed in fields where crops have yet to grow. I took the photograph two days before the end of March and made a mental note to take a similar shot in May or June when the trees are fully in leaf.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2
