Yellow and White
Buttercups and cow parsley everywhere. Beautiful view across South Moor to Glastonbury Tor. I saw this view while cycling the Somerset 100 ride a few days ago, today I had to return with my...
Monthly Archive: May 2023
Skylarks at Deerleap
Skylarks are once again nesting on the Deerleap field on the Mendip Hills. Please, please follow the signs to protect the birds. This year there was a special treat. In our spaces managed for...
Lynchcombe Steps
The Lynchcombe nature reserve is covered in hawthorn blossom. Once again making this a magical time, here and across a lot of Somerset. The Lynchcombe nature reserve is owned and managed by the Somerset...
Cut Above
New Cut The words new cut brings images to mind of motorways crossing a hillside. However, this is not the case in Wells. Here the New Cut appears to be an ancient track up...
Callow Hill
Callow Hill sits on the southern side of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. I started a walk in Axbridge near Cheddar, and immediately climbed the steep hill up through the woods. This is not...
Ladies Walk at Montacute
Montacute I have wanted to visit the Ladies Walk at Montacute for a while, but it never happened. This year I finally got around to it! Ladies Walk Ladies Walk is a woodland trail...
Sunrise Through the Mist
This is one of my favourite finger posts. It is so tall, not sure why as it stands in the flat lands of the Somerset Levels. This morning the landscape was covered in mist....
Lynchcombe Steps
It was time to spend some quality time on the Lynchcombe nature reserve on the edge of the Mendip Hills. As a volunteer warden I was checking on the condition of the reserve for...
Fuller’s Hay
I do not normally travel this far north in Somerset, but I tumbled across a picture of Fuller’s Hay on the internet. This is a wood with a strange name near the village of...
Coronation Robin
It’s coronation day for the new king in the UK, meaning hours sitting around the goggle box watching all that pomp and ceremony. Maybe, or perhaps starring out the window at the birds and...
