  
Rock GardenSunday 16th July 2000
  AT THE RAILWAY CUTTING, at Addingford, below the village of Horbury, a huge block, the size of a very large car, has become detached from the rockface. It's a thick layer of sandstone but here it is underlain by shale and, in one place, a coal seam, so it isn't as stable as you might expect solid rock to be. It has been shored up and netted to allow safe access along the lane below.Valerian, a garden escape here, has taken root on the ledges.  Gatekeeper butterflies are on the wing by the old railway embankment and along the towpath. A Heron stalks the marshy field. It's the height of summer so I'm surprised to see a few scaly topped fungi emerging amongst the twiggy debris in the shade beneath overgrown Hawthorns by the quarry.
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