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...
Follow Jeff Bevan across Somerset
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...
Buttercups are spreading out across the Somerset moors. This year they seem to be doing especially well, and no where is better than South Moor near Glastonbury. The backdrop is the famous Glastonbury Tor....
The fields around Fenny Castle are covered in buttercups. And they look great in yellow. Buttercup Fields sound more like a building development in a town rather than the open fields of the English...
This is another post venturing over the Somerset border into a neighbouring county. This is because I recently struggled around a gravel cycle ride around the Wiltshire Downs that was organised by Glorious Gravel....
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...
Lynchcombe nature reserve enjoys the sunny south facing edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Today it was so sunny the sheep kept out of the heat under a tree. Perhaps we have reached...
Respect the Bluebells Prior’s Wood in the north west corner of Somerset is promoted as a bluebell wood. So you can imagine it was been on my radar for a long time. Finally, I...
A different post today as I ventured over the border from Somerset into Devon. Staying in the village of Manaton on the edge of Dartmoor. This was not to see this wonderful alpaca. Instead...
Bit by bit Somerset seems to be going slightly more yellow. I’m not talking buttercups, cowslips or even primroses – but brassica plants. Confusing Brassica Brassica is a genus of plants in the cabbage...
When you Google images for a town or village the first few pages of results are for properties. If you are lucky a few pictures from the local newspaper will find their way into...