This was another holiday of mostly good weather, fine views, and impromptu art in the landscape....!

We met on Friday night and went out to eat in Keswick together, finding seats outside in the warm weather and sunshine.

Saturday was still sunny, though the temperature had dropped a bit.

We set off straight from Keswick and walked through Portinscale along the edge of Derwent Water.

We walked past Brandelhowe, and through Manesty Park to the cafe at Shepherd's crag for tea cakes and ice cream.

We then went to look at the Lodore Falls which were more like a trickle after the dry weather in April. We returned to Keswick on the bus. A curry finished off the evening.

Sunday - still no rain in spite of forecasts to the contrary, so we took the opportunity to take the boat to Ashness Landing.

From here we walked to Watendlath Tarn past Ashness Bridge and Surprise view.

We had lunch at the Tarn, including tea and cake in the cafe.

Some then returned to Keswick via the National Trust minibus, whilst the rest of us headed over to Rosthwaite in Borrowdale on the bridle path.

We took the bus back to Keswick, then did more and tea and cakes and shopping there!

Monday brought the rain - a morning long shower only dampened our enthusiasm a trifle, and the rain stopped by lunchtime.

We were then rewarded with the wonderful views of the fells surrounding Castlerigg stone circle as well as the stone circle itself.

Some women then took the shorter direct way back to Keswick along the road to dry clothes and take a hot shower.

The rest of us continued a bit further along the disused railway line where we saw a red squirrel jumping from tree to tree - perhaps it too was happy the rain had stopped!

Time for tea scones and cakes in Keswick and then final evening dinner in the pub and jokes and stories afterwards.

Some women had to leave us on Tuesday morning and it was a smaller group that took the bus to Grange and walked through the beautiful Low and High Hows woods.

The spring woodland flowers were out: we saw Violets, Wood Anemones, and Celendines.

Although colder than the previous days, the air was still and very calm and it was a lovely peaceful walk.

We walked as far as Rosthwaite, and crossed the Derwent River on the stepping stones, before catching the bus back to Keswick for final goodbyes.