The Bald Hills

A drive over the Radnor hills from Presteigne to Knighton. Mostly we spend our time in the valleys here as this tends to be where the towns and villages are. And the tops of the hills here are often forested, so the views are restricted. Over towards Knighton the landscape - the hillscape - opens up and the forests are dark patches of dense trees on the sheep fields and fields of wheat. The sheep grass is clipped short and the hills look like velvet, a real 'patchwork' of greens and black-green forests. And the clouds up there are amazing, huge tumbling shapes on a high silent wind, patches of unexpected blue, I could lie on those fields forever watching the clouds. It has been a week of grey days and grey rain clouds, so the blue and white clouds are all the more welcome.