Category: Spring

Roe deer in Bluebells - Longwood, Somerset, UK. ID JBB_0464

Get ready for May

Spring reaches its peak in May.  This month, flowers of all colours spread across the woodland, grasslands and countryside.  Insects emerge from mayflies, dragonflies and butterflies.  Friendly rabbits nibble at the grass.  Lambs dash...

Swell Wood in Spring - Swell, Somerset, UK. ID 810_7812

Get ready for April

Despite the endless rain of this March and the flooding across the Somerset Levels.  We have been promised that spring is on its way. Spring is may peoples favourite season as flowers and butterflies...

Forde Abbey - Nr Chard, Somerset, UK. ID JB_0556

Spring at Forde Abbey

After a winter of wind, rain and floods.  Then a spring of snow.  Today normal spring service was returned.  I love spring.  Then I also love autumn, winter an summer.  But spring is definitely...

Bluebells at Park Wood - Nr Wells, Somerset, UK. ID JB_8061H

Spring Stroll

Over recent weeks the weather has been wet and surprisingly cold.  So when the forecast improved for a day the only thing to do was to attempt to visit all my favourite neighbourhood woods....

Church of All Saints - Ashcott, Somerset, UK. ID JB_6228

Ashcott Spring

Ashcott is a small village on the low ridge of the Golden hills in Somerset between Walton and Shapwick.  It has pubs which is great see these days. In the churchyard the spring blossom...

Primroses - Church of St Andrew, West Bradley, Somerset, UK. ID JB_6096

West Bradley

The church at West Bradley is hidden deep in the Somerset countryside not far from Glastonbury. The area is well known for its numerous orchards. The village is surrounded by narrow country lanes. Back...

Daffodils - Pen Selwood, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_8497

Signs of Spring

In spring Somerset several town signs become surrounded by yellow daffodils. Twined with Las Vegas – What happens in Dulcote, stays in Dulcote You may not have noticed but the tiny hamlet of Dulcote...

Primroses on the Rampart Bank - Bishops Palace, Wells, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7164

Spring at the Palace

A swan welcomes the start of spring at the Bishop’s Palace in Wells.  Wells is a tiny city at the heart of Somerset with a big history.  The Bishop’s Palace also has a living...

Spring Revisited

Spring time and we are still in lockdown.  So I wanted to revisit some of my spring pictures from around Somerset – starting with roe deer. This is the sort of view most of...

Spring Morning - Longwood, Somerset, UK. ID 825_0621H

Colours of May

This summer has been so busy.  So I have decided the only way to catch up is to write a single post for the whole of May. The Colours of May Spring is a...