I spent the weekend in mid-Wales, north of Machynlleth – a very different environment from the north, more mountainous, less inhabited, dominated by the fact that much of the land was acquired by the Forestry Commission between the wars, creating a half managed treescape:-


I explored the surrounding woods and what survives of a old sporting estate, complete with early tennis court, boating pond and shrine converted out of an ice house:-





Lovely and evocative images