THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

If the chorales of the birds signify anything, romantic Deepdale is their sanctuary.  Vegetation is at its lushest and best, firs of colossal size succeed other trees only less magnificently impressive by their girth and vigour.  Every rood upward some new phase of beauty is revealed.  Nature has hidden in rich garments of foliage what harsh notes there might be in the bare framework of the scene.  Skyward, giant pines upshoot their blue-green or bronze-frosted pyramids, making a fine foil to the yellower greens of the shade grass and the blue sheets of wood-hyacinths which are spread in ethereal beauty of tint over the soil.  The fir-tree trunks have the effect of a pillared cloister; we are in Nature’s Sanctuary indeed.

Bogg/Richmondshire, 1908