Over the hills and a great way off....
A day off booked and in the diary and a weather forecast full of wind and rain. I am going to visit Karen at Artist's Garden to see her and to look at her garden, last seen in cold and empty February . The weather map on the BBC site shows a violent pulse of blue and green storm sweeping the North West corner of Wales in the morning. After breakfast here in the North East corner it is windy, the air cool and brisk with the promise of rain, as I let the hens out, open up the greenhouse and decide that I will go, rain or no rain. Westward, rising high on the Denbigh moors and the wind is snatching at the car. It is too high and bleak here for trees. Buffetted sheep huddle by piles of stones, pummelled by the wind. I head down to the A5 and find the short cut through Ysbyty Ifan is closed to traffic. The sainted sat nav sends me down towards Dolgellau. As the car descends below the treeline there are branches on the road and new leav...