{"id":1244,"date":"2020-07-28T17:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2020-07-28T17:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:55:43","slug":"flowering-lane-wooded-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/07\/28\/flowering-lane-wooded-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering lane, wooded trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 102 of the End to End in 2019 was across the Black Isle, a place of flowery lanes and wooded paths.\u00a0 Moving on to 2020 my second day on the TPT eastwards was also along flowery and wooded paths.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-782\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2411-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2411-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2411-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2411-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2411-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I enjoy most about long distance walking is the opportunity to enjoy the natural world, especially flowering plants and the insects.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-792\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2556-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2556-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2556-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2556-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_2556-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At this time of year many of the plants are showing pink or yellow flowers. On sunny days plenty of butterflies are about.\u00a0 Today was windy but not wet. The TPT is an excellent route, a path with a good even surface and lovely views of the River Don.<\/p>\n<p>The Boat Inn had closed sometime since Bob walked past in 2013. In its place was a small snack van selling tasty lemon muffins. Leaving the River Don, the last section of the route to Bentley was on a disused railway path. We arrived at Bentley Park in good time. The whole route had taken about the same amount of time as yesterday&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC_7076-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From the remembered gospel: <em>Jesus said &#8216;Look at the Lilies of the field&#8217;.<\/em><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s lovely to walk a route lined with flowers, or a path shaded by trees. They make the way pleasant.<br \/>\nMay we make the way pleasant for others, offering courtesy and support to fellow travellers, sharing the route, treading gently.<\/p>\n<p>JAL 28.07.2020 Denaby Ings to Bentley via TPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 102 of the End to End in 2019 was across the Black Isle, a place of flowery lanes and wooded paths.\u00a0 Moving on to 2020 my second day on the TPT eastwards was also along flowery and wooded paths. One of the things I enjoy most about long distance walking is the opportunity to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/07\/28\/flowering-lane-wooded-trail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flowering lane, wooded trail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remembered-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}