{"id":3823,"date":"2012-02-12T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T09:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2012-02-12T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T14:54:42","slug":"spring-is-almost-here-as-the-snowdrops-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/2012\/02\/spring-is-almost-here-as-the-snowdrops-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is almost here as the snowdrops bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have had a very busy week \u00a0due to one thing and another, so it was great to get out of the house yesterday for some sniffs.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Cummersdale Viaduct near Dalston, Cumbria gets a lick of paint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Due to it being still quite cold it was decided that I should have my coat on today for our walk by the river at Cummersdale.<\/p>\n

Although the coat does keep my back warm I am not really a fan of it as it sort of limits my movement due to it being a little stiff.<\/p>\n

Instead of our normal path towards town, we headed this time towards Dalston.<\/p>\n

Cummersdale viaduct repairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within a few hundred metres we came across works being done on the Cummersdale Viaduct.<\/p>\n

It appears that Network Rail<\/a> are spending about \u00a31m on the bridge, replacing the track and giving it a new coat of green paint.<\/p>\n

The work is due to finish in June and has been scheduled to avoid the salmon spawning season – between September and June.<\/p>\n

\"Spread<\/a>
Spread out across the fields are these gas pipeline marker posts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This viaduct carries the Maryport and Carlisle railway line over the River Caldew.<\/p>\n

The path is part of the 70 mile Cumbria Way<\/a> long distance footpath.<\/p>\n

Marker posts<\/strong><\/p>\n

The recent few dry cold days made the sniffs really strong and Charlie had good fun following trails in and out of the long grass.<\/p>\n

He must run miles further than I do as he criss-crosses the path in hunting mode.<\/p>\n

As we were not in any hurry, dad took the time to investigate some orange and white marker posts.<\/p>\n

He had often seen these at the edge of roads or partially hidden in hedges.<\/p>\n

Standing about 2.5m tall the wide white pole featured a day glow orange band around the top.<\/p>\n

As it was a clear day others could be seen in the distance, either side of the one we stood next to.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The snowdrops cover the river banks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The small information post indicated that the posts marked a high pressure gas pipeline hidden beneath, operated by Northern Gas Networks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Snowdrops<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago we mentioned<\/a> that we had spotted a few snowdrops in a nearby churchyard.<\/p>\n

Well spring is truly here, as we spotted many hundreds of flowers covering the river bank yesterday.<\/p>\n

A whole industry has grown up with the search for snowdrops and snowdrop walks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dad almost fell into the river as he tried to get some photographs of the ones above.<\/p>\n

Walk over, we headed back towards the car and home for a well earned rest.<\/p>\n

Over the next few days we have quite a few things to do including some baking. More on this soon….<\/p>\n

Until next time<\/p>\n

Buster and Charlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A trip to Cummersdale, near Carlisle reveals a bridge being repaired and some snowdrops growing on the riverbank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,681],"tags":[502,479,190,4198,4201,218,4204,173,4200,970,137,71,2418,4203,4206,4199,62,61,209,3128,4196,4195,4205,4193,1089,4207,3590,4197,902,709],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-expeditions","category-featured","tag-1m","tag-bloom","tag-bridge","tag-carlisle-railway-line","tag-cold-days","tag-cumbria","tag-day-glow","tag-footpath","tag-gas-pipeline","tag-good-fun","tag-grass","tag-hedges","tag-hunting","tag-hurry","tag-information-post","tag-long-distance","tag-marker","tag-marker-posts","tag-maryport","tag-nbsp","tag-network-rail","tag-new-coat","tag-orange-band","tag-paint","tag-path","tag-river-banks","tag-salmon","tag-salmon-spawning","tag-snowdrops","tag-viaduct","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/snowdrops-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/snowdrops-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}