For most of our 30 years living & working in the UK we were based in Chesterfield, a town on the edge of the Peak District known for the warped spire of its largely 14th C. Anglican church, seen here from Linacre Reservoirs on the outskirts (📷1). After leaving friends in Nottinghamshire we made for the latter to revisit our go-to “walk & talk” green space, a 4km trail around Middle (📷2) & Upper Reservoir. Many times have we made this round, under a hot sun grateful for shade, treading through a golden carpet of fallen oak leaves, crunching across frozen puddles hidden in the snow, or witnesseing the spring green of new beech leaves above swathes of vivid bluebells. Today, 4 years after bidding it farewell, we returned to a display of native Dactylorhiza fuchsii | the common spotted orchid (📷3) & Rosa arvensis | the field rose, drapped over the drystone walls bounding lush meadows that typify this part of England (📷4).

Everyone needs such a place in their lives—ideally real, but if not feasible, then imagined.

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