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A photo of a moorland landscape in changeable spring weather. Overlapping hillsides of rough grass in tones of green and brown stretch into the distance. Rain clouds are rolling in towards the camera, obscuring the far hills in a grey veil. The sun is just breaking through an opening in the clouds in the top right half of the frame, glinting off a small river that runs like a silver ribbon through the centre of the view. In the foreground, the land slopes gently down to the right to the valley bottom. Its uneven surface is a dense cover of fawn-brown tussocks, between which one could easily turn an ankle. An exposed grey granite boulder lies to the left. Beyond it the dark wobbly line of a drystone wall - the A-frame of a ladder stile halfway along - that demarcates greener, yet still rough, grazing scattered with darker green patches of heather and gorse. A cluster of trees is silhouetted against the skyline on the right, marking the site of a now ruined farmstead. The old stone clapper bridge leading to it crosses the river to the left of centre.