Taking a drive across the fens the other day we spotted a pretty bedraggled looking tree which wanted to be photographed for #treetuesday.
The bedraggled tree.
While I was out of the car it occurred to me, to show you what the fens actually looks like because I often talk about them in my posts. So to give you some kind of context to the area in which I live I made this short video.
I have been writing about the fens for many years and include a link here if you want to know all about the area.
It is pretty long and detailed and covers the numerous flood events that have happened over the last few 100 years.
"Building on Fenland has always had risks attached to them, as the fens are predominantly below sea level.
The fear has been that the sea, will breach coastal defenses.
What has sometimes been overlooked, is the rainfall on areas that are below sea level and other low lying points in the geology. Water with nowhere to run too will gather in the lowest lying area."
The commentary in the middle of this clip is from a video I made with Rex Birchenough at the Flag Fen archaeological site in Cambridgeshire. Full video
Hope you know have an idea of my home range.
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I can see why they have some wind turbines coz it is flat without trees as well.
It reminds me of the Prairies over there. Mile after mike of flatlands.
We have many many wind turbines here and a couple of months ago, for the first time since 1868 we generated more power from renewables than coal! Incredible.
Quite fascinating! I had no idea the fens were below sea level. We have blue flag growing in bogs here in Wisconsin. I grew up on the prairie. I can appreciate that horizon!
Yep, virtually the whole of East Anglia is reclaimed land. The blue flags were very popular for home decor at one time. Everyone had bullrushes etc in their lounges.
Cities feel so boxed in after living out here on the fens. You know that big sky feeling then.
I love the sky, and it is the one thing I dislike intensely about living in the woods. I love my house, and the river and the spring, and all the wildlife, but if anything could ever make me move it would be a good horizon view!
When I lived in London I would often go to the coast to get that view of the horizon.
There is something wonderfully uplifting about big sky country.
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Thanks Putra glad you liked seeing the fens.
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That's one of the reasons I make these little videos. So that people from all around the world can get a glimpse that there is a much bigger world and how we live.
It's like virtual travel with a local guide that you know.
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