Pen Hill
Pen Hill is the Mendip Hills red light district. The mast is nearly 300m tall and sits on the top of a 300m hill in Somerset. It is surrounded by rough grazing and dry-stone...
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Uphill Again
I folllowed by feet back up the hill at Uphill. As is often the case I there early. Early enough to capture the stars in the night sky above the old church. It has...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Winter Winter on this grassland nature reserve high up on the Mendip Hills can sometimes look like this. Back in 2019, just before the pandemic, it was hard to stand during this blizzard....
Morning Brue
The River Brue flows very slowly across the Somerset Levels. Much of its route is really straight, but a small section between Meare and Westhay is all wibbly-wobbly. So I started a mini-project to...
Queen’s Sedge Moor
Recently I have driven down the road between Wells and Glastonbury at roughly the same time each morning. I noticed a small clump of trees in a field next to the road. So I...
Christmas Stars
It is Boxing Day and what better in a tiny gap in the wet weather we have had recently than to visit a couple of stars I have not seen since the start of...
Red Dawn at Lynchcombe
Its Christmas morning and it’s cloudy. These pictures were taken a couple of days ago. I hope you like them, Jeff. Happy Christmas Early in the morning a beautiful deep red sky above the...
Solstice at Howling Gate
Howling Gate is my name for gateway on Cook’s Field. This is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve high up in the Mendip Hills. To appreciate its name you need to stand next to...
Draycott Sleights
It was really cold standing at the top of the cliffs on Draycott Sleights during a winter’s morning. This is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve best known for its panoramic views and its...
Starling Trail
December begins with an astonishingly beautiful sunset at RSPB Ham Wall on the Somerset Levels. The starling murmurations were pretty good too! In the evening light the first starlings to arrive do a fly-by...
