Leap into Spring
Road side red campion is sign that spring is well underway. In the fields the dandelions have gone to seed and the buttercups have won the race to take over. A steep narrow...
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Get ready for May
Spring reaches its peak in May. This month, flowers of all colours spread across the woodland, grasslands and countryside. Insects emerge from mayflies, dragonflies and butterflies. Friendly rabbits nibble at the grass. Lambs dash...
Blackmoor
Blackmoor Blackmoor is part of the prehistoric lead mining area of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Like neighbouring Ubley Warren it is covered in gruffy ground – a landscape of hollows, lumps and dumps formed...
Lydford On Fosse
West Lyford Tucked away in the countryside, out of sight from the busy cross roads of the Fosse Way (aka A37) and the B3153 is the small village of West Lydford. The River Blue...
Colours of May
This summer has been so busy. So I have decided the only way to catch up is to write a single post for the whole of May. The Colours of May Spring is a...
Starling Trail
Ham Wall Car Park For many years cars squeezed into the small car park between Shapwick Heath and Ham Wall. When it overflowed during starling season cars would line the narrow road. Then the RSPB...
Ham Wall
My visit to Prospect Fields was shorter than expected so I headed back home. The traffic was building so I decided to make a detour via the Avalon Marshes. I was just avoiding the busy...
Horsington
A morning visit to Horsington in South Somerset. I hoped to photograph the flowers around the stream and pond. The pond was dry but the Red Campion (Silene dioica) was beautiful. And Finally… Horsington has...
Pink Lace
Cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) is a plant most of us take for granted but combined with its spring-time partner the pink coloured Red Campion (Silene dioica) it lines hundreds of miles of roadside hedgerow....
Ebbor Gorge
Every now and again you find a secret corner of an area you thought you knew. Today was one of those days, I re-discovered the easy access trail next to the Ebbor Gorge car park....
