Having checked out the Ornamental Lake on the Common on Monday, I thought that on Thursday I'd have a look at "Cemetery Lake", which I don't recall ever visiting before. The name doesn't refer to some ancient British lacustrine funerary custom, but merely to its proximity to the Old Southampton Cemetery, which is situated at the very south end of the Common.
It turns out to be a much more interesting spot than the Ornamental Lake, mainly fenced off and surrounded by trees and gorse bushes, and therefore a haven for water birds of all sorts. I was also lucky with the weather, on a day which was forecast for heavy cloud. Gradually, I'm realising I have a perfect little landscape project in the making within walking distance of our house. Which is both good news and bad, for someone still struggling to complete another "little" landscape project that has so far occupied five years and counting...
6 comments:
And this lake, unlike the other one (or at least your photos of it), even features that most lacustrine of features: water!
Indeed... But there's no law says you have to face the lake when you're next to it!
Mike
Well, the post title does read "In and Around...", so I was expecting to see water in the extreme foreground of at least one! Very disappointing. Still, I suppose there's no law that says titles have to reflect content to the letter...
The fact is, that in the first photograph I am indeed standing in the lake, looking at the reeds on the bank. Jolly cold and wet it was, too.
Mike
You have to suffer for your art though, don't you? That's definitely the best one on that page.
Hey, you don't know what I was standing in to take the others, though...
Mike
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