Hole Of Horcum 1

Faintlightofdawn, on July 29, 2008, said:

Wonderful scenery Paula!

Paula K, on July 29, 2008, said:

thanks Fai, the moors are very beautiful, especially at this time of year.

Paula

shieldc, on July 30, 2008, said:

Great, Paula. shieldc

Paula K, on July 30, 2008, said:

Thank you sheildc, you are very kind sir!

Paula

John Goodall, on July 31, 2008, said:

Hello Paula, Thanks for visiting my gallery again, and yes, if you've not been to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Bretton Hall, I can thoroughly recommend a visit. Your famous late neighbour from Castleford, the sculptor Henry Moore, is well represented there. The "arty stuff" as you call it, is after all but an advanced expression of technique by people who have had the privilege of spending a lifetime refining their interpretation and representation of the world about us in one or another medium, and, as with our own amateur efforts to capture the fleeting moment in a photograph, may be judged by the extent to which it captures something of truth and beauty for the enlightenment of and enjoyment by our fellow human beings and for posterity. You'll be welcome to call in here for a cuppa to recover from the stuff that falls short of the mark(!) - we now live just up the road from the YSP. John. PS It looks to me as if this shot of "The Devil's Bowl" was taken from the car park on the A168 rather than at the bottom of the slope as the map marker suggests.

Paula K, on July 31, 2008, said:

Hi John, thank you for your visit, I am sure I will find a visit to the sculpture park very interesting, your offer of a cuppa is very kind! I took this photo from the path at the top of the slope, not from the car park, but the marker does need adjusting, thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't noticed it!

Best wishes,

Paula

ayyoob sharifi, on August 4, 2008, said:

beautiful prairie

Paula K, on August 5, 2008, said:

Thank you very much Ayyoob.

Paula

antonio callejon, on August 12, 2008, said:

Beautiful photoraphy. A greeting from Andalucia.

Paula K, on August 12, 2008, said:

Thank you Antonio, i appreciate your visit.

Paula

thor☼odin™, on January 24, 2009, said:

Please explain what kind of hole this is Paula an ancient vulcano ot something like that??? Cheers, Peter

Paula K, on January 24, 2009, said:

Hello Peter. these are glacial valleys, formed at the end of the last ice age. The glaciers sliding down carved these wonderful valleys out.Regards,

Paula

John Goodall, on January 31, 2009, said:

Dear Paula, Nice to be back with you on the road over the North York Moors to Whitby! I was given a slightly different explanation of the origins of Newton Dale and the Hole of Horcum by a Geographer, Mr. Fred Singleton on a field trip from my school in Huddersfield that he led in 1959. (He was at the time the Workers' Educational Association Tutor Organiser based in Leeds). Newton Dale, he told us, was formed as an overflow channel of glacial meltwater escaping from Eskdale, which was dammed by the North Sea ice sheet, into Lake Pickering and the "Devil's Bowl" (or Hole of Horcum) was formed by spring-sapping, assisted by the erosion of the glacially "over-deepened" Levisham Beck. An unscientific explanation based on a local myth of a Saxon chief throwing lumps of muck at his wife can be found here.. Hope this may be of interest to you and your correspondent, Peter. Best wishes, John

Paula K, on January 31, 2009, said:

Thank you John, nice to have you visit again. Thank you for the information too. I quite like the saxon myth explanation!! So much more interesting than the scientific version!!

Regards,

Paula