Spring Flowers on Yarley Hill
Henton sits on the road between Wells and Wedmore. The village nestles below Yarley Hill on the edge of the valley on the River Axe in the heart of Somerset in England. Climbing up...
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Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe nature reserve is high up on the south face of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. It was wide open views across the Somerset Levels. So it seemed like the perfect place to see...
Mendip Mist
We know autumn brings golden colours, but don’t forget it also brings us the soft white colours of mist. To make the most of the mist you can either drop down into the valley...
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....
Yarley Hill
A few years ago I often visited to this ash tree up on the hill above the village of Yarley in Somerset. Today, with a favourable weather forecast, I made a nostalgic trip to...
Surprise Spring Mist
As we approached Easter we had a few days of clear blue skies. The forecast for the following morning was very cold with a good chance of some springtime mist. All this and a...
Somerset Year 2022
As is often the case my photograph year started with a sunrise at RSPB Ham Wall. Ham Wall Visits to RSPB Ham Wall to watch the starling murmurations tops and tails each year. This...
Lynchcombe Steps
It has been a quiet time up on the Lynchcombe nature reserve in the Mendip Hills of Somerset. We have a lot of showers recently. The upside of which has been some wonderful rainbows....
Autumn Equinox
This year I decided to re-interpret the date of equinox. Officially, the precise moment of the equinox at Glastonbury is Friday, 23 September 2022, 02:03 BST. Obviously, if it occurs in the middle of...
Windmill Hill to Glastonbury Tor
Running along the southern edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset is the A39 main road. I’m not sure it is a real main road as it is very narrow in several places. There...
