The Winking Man
After being away in the field for the past week I’m just catching up on things (over a thousand blog posts in my google reader feed for starters). I went for a walk yesterday in the Staffordshire part of the Peak District. This is the “Winking Man” on Ramshaw Rocks near the Roaches. It is so called because as one passes along the A53 from Buxton to Leek the view of the sky though the ‘eye’ gets briefly obscured by the ridge giving the illusion of a wink. Geologically, it is a Marsdenian (Bashkirian, Carboniferous) gritstone.
Also, here is a tree growing in a rock cleft on Hen Cloud.
