Tagged: Axe Valley

View from Broadway Hill - Westbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7522P

Off Broadway

Broadway Hill over looks the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset.  It is itself overlooked by the Mendip Hills.  Being a bit lower it is a great vantage point for watching the mist over the...

Lynchcombe Panorama - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID BR58612

Lynchcombe Steps

Things can be very quiet at Lynchcombe in Somerset.  Lynchcombe is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve on the sunny southern slopes on the Mendip Hills. Situated down the hill from the Deerleap field...

Flooding on Westbury Moor - Westbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset, UK. ID BR50304P

Westbury Moor

From up on Mendip you could look down over the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip and see large areas of water shining in the bright sunlight. It was time to take a closer look, so I...

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. ID BR55687

Lynchcombe Steps

Lynchcombe in September To me the highlight was the fabulous sunset we had over the Autumn Equinox. The side gate into Cook’s Fields that leads to the grass path down to village of Westbury-sub-Mendip...

Autumn Equinox - Lynchcombe, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID BR57352

Lynchcombe Gate

Autumn Equinox I normally head up Glastonbury Tor to welcome the equinox with lots of other people.  But this autumn I wanted a simpler evening and so I drove up to Lynchcombe on the...

Sunrise at Bagley Fields - Nr Wedmore, Somerset, UK. ID BR55808P

Back to Bagley

We have been so lucky to get some beautiful September weather.  Trying to make the most of the opportunity I returned to the fields at Bagley to photograph them at dawn and then again...

Curly Dock (Rumex crispus) - Mudgley, Nr Wedmore, Somerset, UK. ID BR52900

Back to Bagley

Its starting to look distinctly like autumn at the Badley field near Wedmore in Somerset.  Long shadows run across the ground early in the morning in August.  Lower in the valley of the River...

Garden End Farm - Theale, Somerset, UK. ID BR54475

Axe Valley Buttercups

On a clear morning, at this time of year, the valley fills with mist. Gradually the mist burns away. As bright blue skies appear over the small hills that spring up across the valley....

Dandelions - Bagley, Somerset, UK. ID B011968

Dandelion Meadow

Every now and again you stubble on something truly special.  This time it was a field in Bagley, near Wedmore, in Somerset. I was on the look out for dandelions this spring when a...