Tagged: Blue Sky

Mist over the Levels form Deerleap - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_0106

Mist

Not every trip goes to plan.  A few days ago I ventured to the top of Glastonbury Tor.  Arriving in the dark hoping to catch the sun rising over a countryside covered in beautiful...

Speckled Wood - St Andrews, Curry Rivel, Somerset, UK. ID JB_3772

Curry Rivel

Following a brief visit to RSPB Swell Wood nature reserve I could not resist checking out the church in the village of Curry Rivel.  I discovered that it was looked amazing at the this...

Mendips in snow - Above Wells, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_1399

Wells Winter

We were all beginning to think that we would not get a real winter this year.  It has been so warm – and cloudy.  But today it finally snowed and the landscape around the...

The Somerset Poppies - Bishops Palace, Wells, Somerset, UK. ID 826_4602

The Somerset Poppies

Catching up with the Wells Poppy Trail at the Bishops Palace. The Somerset Poppies Following visits to the Cathedral and St Cuthbert’s Church today I visited the famous Bishops Palace in Wells.  Volunteers had...

Oak - Quantock Hills, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_4008

Quantocks

I do not visit the Quantock Hills very often  That is a mistake for which I have not excuse.  Today was a small step to correct that as I headed out to west Somerset. Heather...

ISS over Glastonbury Tor - Somerset, UK. ID 810_5836

ISS Challenge

I won a photography competition.  The competition was for a picture of the International Space Station – the ISS.   Of course, I did not have access to a high powered NASA telescope so...

Sky on Fire - Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK. ID 810_1296

Sunrise Drive

We are all drawn to a beautiful sunrise when the sky is flooded in a stunning reds, oranges or pinks and purples. Driving through Shepton Mallet on the way to work the sky started to...

The old Church of St Nicholas, Uphill

Uphill Church

The Old Church of St Nicholas in Uphill has had a great location overlooking Uphill for nearly a thousand years.  The fields surrounding the church are a local nature reserve and each year they put...