Hello all

Welcome to OM Northernsky .

I'm in Scotland but know there are quiet a few that walk in your area, if you have a chance, look in "Meets and Partners" in the Forum page and ask a question or make a comment, you can also see what's going on in various areas.

Pull up a chair and have a look around in here, or if not, have a bracing walk in the wild outdoors .

Include a little history in your walks. Pecsaetan - Ancient Derbyshire, Staffordshire and South Yorkshire - http://pecsaetan.weebly.com/

Thanks for the welcomes. Hope I can contribute to the forum and share in my love for the outdoors. It is good to find so many like minded people here.

I have really just started to find my way around and if i am honest  I am not totally familiar with this forum stuff.

Its great to get a welcome though so once again - thanks.

I've been here for a year or more Nsky and I'm still bumping into things , just ask, but if   it's complicated, best not ask me .

Hello Salmon, difficult to answer that question really (without admitting it)

Do I posess some flowery shirts? Hmmm

Well as the poet Charles Boudelaire saw it  "Les Fleurs du mal".

Thinking about it on a deeper level - perhaps flowery shirts posess me?

So I try to avoid them at the moment.

He, he

I can see you have a fine taste though.

Northensky

I am concerned with your choice of poet.  Surely the French should limit their poetry to surrendering (and maybe eating cheese).  I personally enjoy Robert Browning but here is a little gem by William Blake (I have a shirt with sunflowers on).

Ah! sunflower, weary of time,

Who countest the steps of the sun,

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

 Where the traveller’s journey is done;

Where the youth pined away with desire,

And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,

Arise from their graves and aspire;

Where my sunflower wishes to go.

Fine sentiments indeed Salmom.

William Blake is also a favourite of mine.

Perhaps now I shall go 'wander lonely as a cloud' 

throught snow thats still ont hills

and  perhaps avoid the crowds

and the walking daffodils