Lynchcombe Steps
High up on the Mendip Hill spring has arrived. The hawthorn that covers much of the reserve, and the neighbouring Deerleap field, is in flower and lambs are running around everywhere. The path into...
Monthly Archive: May 2016
Queens Sedge Moor
I visited Queens Sedge Moor several times during to day to capture the changing colours and moods. This moor lies between Wells and Glastonbury on the edge of the Somerset Levels in the UK....
Uphill Nature Reserve
Today I returned to Uphill nature reserve as I had heard that it was golden with buttercups. The weather was dull and grey but there sure was a lot of buttercups. This may help...
Horsington
A morning visit to Horsington in South Somerset. I hoped to photograph the flowers around the stream and pond. The pond was dry but the Red Campion (Silene dioica) was beautiful. And Finally… Horsington has...
Spring Moors
A few more pictures of moors on the Somerset Levels. Photographed on my way home – cows and buttercups in spring.
Pink Lace
Cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) is a plant most of us take for granted but combined with its spring-time partner the pink coloured Red Campion (Silene dioica) it lines hundreds of miles of roadside hedgerow....
Red Hedge
Hedges in an area of Wells have been draped in red netting to stop birds nesting. It marks the submission of plans to build 150 new homes. And Finally… The strange patterns of blue...
Westbury-sub-Mendip
Westbury-sub-Mendip is a village on the south facing slopes of the Mendip Hills Wells and Cheddar. This spring the fields above the village are covered in bright yellow buttercups.
Pilton Hill
Driving home I saw a bright yellow field on the hill above North Wootton. I drove towards it hoping I could park somewhere close and find a footpath to the field. As it turned out the...
Ragged-Robin
As well as the woodland Withial Combe has a series of damp meadows. These contain the brilliant flower – Ragged-Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi. After photographing the wild garlic in the woods I could not resist...
