Walls
Over at the Geograph site, I have contributed 393 images in which the principal subject is tagged as "wall" or "walls". Mostly, the walls in question are drystone walls which are an integral feature of upland landscapes in England and Wales. Historically, wherever stones were easily available, our forbears would build walls - rather than planting hedges. The walls were to delineate ownership and to enclose animals or crops. It is estimated that there are over 170,000 miles of drystone wall in Britain - enough to circle the globe seven times over. I am a sucker for these walls. Many are hundreds of years old and if you pause to look closely at them you find a certain rustic beauty. I suspect that the wall builders of yore never imagined for one minute that they were producing a kind of accidental art that would endure through the centuries as testament to their hard labour and craftsmanship. On YouTube a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon the ramblings of a...