Winter Solstice and Full Moon
A few visits to the top of Glastonbury Tor to celebrate the Winter Solstice and last Full Moon of 2023. Torch Light The weather has been mixed this week. On the shortest day of...
Tagged: Christmas
Happy Christmas
I love the things that people do to celebrate Christmas like this wonderful post box in Wells Happy Christmas St Cuthbert’s church has a Crib Festival each year. For me this begins Christmas. A...
Christmas Illuminations in Wells
Time to get into the Christmas mood with a visit to the illuminations at the Bishop’s Palace in Wells. Chance to stroll around enjoying some mulled wine and a mince pie. My favourite was...
Stockhill Woods
Focus Stacking Today the weather was poor – dull, grey and wet. So I took the opportunity to practice focus stacking. Focus stacking is where you take a series of pictures of the same...
Crib Festival
The church of St Cuthbert in Wells put on another wonderful Crib Festival. Over 200 miniature nativity scenes made from lot sorts of materials. For me nothing welcomes in the start of Christmas as...
Merry Christmas
A Strange Christmas This is not a normal Christmas. I’m missing my son, my mum and the rest of the family. Hopefully, things we get better next year. I spent the early hours of...
The Gingerbread Inn
Queen Vic In the last few years the Queen Vic pub in the village of Priddy is transformed at Christmas into the amazing Gingerbread Inn. And Finally… Even the village green gets some Christmas lights.
Christmas
Christmas Time The nativity crib festival at St Cuthbert’s Church in Wells is one of the highlights of the year. On Christmas Eve I walked around Lynchcombe above Wells. I am a volunteer warden...
Merry Christmas
Another great year in Somerset. Not much snow but a host of beautiful colours, mists and sunsets marking the seasons. January The year started with the starlings roosting in the far western end of...
Chasing the Supermoon
Everyone is talking about the supermoon this week. Apparently, its the largest full moon for a life time. Assuming I only have one life this was going to be my best time to chase that big moon....
