Jump into June
Summer Times I love the colours of autumn, the flowers of spring, and winter snow – but the warmth of summer is very hard to beat. Hawthorn blooms across the Mendip Hills. Oxeye daisies...
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St Peter’s Daffodils
A couple of years ago I cycled passed St Peter’s Church in Draycott. It was on a route our group of cyclists call ‘The Edge of Mendip’. The Mendip Hills form a high plateau...
Sycamore Tree Sun
To some the idea of loving sycamores in the UK is treason. They have only been in the country for 500 years after being introduced by people. But with ash trees being removed everywhere...
Starling Trail
Everyone likes the little birds that hang around the paths and hides at RSPB Ham Wall. Starling Murmurations I could not make the evening starling displays at the starling roost over Christmas. So I...
Fenny Castle II
I recently posted some pictures I took of a sunrise near Fenny Castle in Somerset, However, it was hard see the castle mound, and the village itself was no way near the picture. So...
Lynchcombe Steps
Late summer brings a different atmosphere to the Mendip Hills and the Lynchcombe nature reserve owned by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. Sheep graze the neighbouring nature reserve of Cooks Fields that overlook the sycamore...
Rodney Stoke
Rodney Stoke Rodney Stoke is a small village nestled below the Mendip Hills in Somerset. It has a beautiful old church that looks out across the open countryside of the Somerset Levels. Following the...
Wolf Moon
I headed up the hills to the Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserves. I had been working all day and just had to get out of the house. I arrived a bit late. My plan...
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...
Milborne Wick
Milborne Wick The hamlet of Milborne Wick lies just north of its much bigger neighbour Milborne Port on the Somerset and Dorset border. It is hidden away in a steep sided valley tucked out...
