Dandelions Everywhere
Yellow dandelions are appearing all over Somerset. Dandelions Dandelions close their flowers in the cold and dark. Despite there being millions of flowers the weather has been so bad that catching them open has...
Monthly Archive: April 2018
Chipmunks
Think of this as a sort of guest post as it a major diversion from my trips around Somerset. I mentioned in an earlier post that I have been on holiday in Utah. I...
Biddle Combe in Spring
On a beautiful spring day I headed up Biddle Combe on the edge of Wells in Somerset. After recent bad weather there was plenty of water in the stream. This sudden change in weather has...
Spring!
I have been away for a couple of weeks walking in the national parks of Utah. When I left the UK was still suffering from a long hard winter. On my return the sun...
Cheddar Gorge
My final post catching up with the beasts from the east that brought snow to Somerset. Cheddar Gorge Somerset’s famous limestone gorge is a great place for a walk. Last week I walked around the gorge...
Middledown
Middledown The Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve of Middledown high in the Mendip Hills has become a recent favourite of mine. So I returned to see how the reserve was recovering from the recent...
North Cheriton Primroses
North Cheriton Recently I visited North Cheriton to photograph the snowdrops in the churchyard. When cycling home from work the other day I noticed the church was now home to a large collection of primroses....
South Cadbury Daffodils
This spring I have been doing a tour around the parishes of Camelot photographing the churchyard flowers. Having visited Blackford, Bratton Seymour, Holton, Maperton, North Cheriton, and Yarlington today it was the turn of South Cadbury....
