Winter Sunrise Over Wells
There’s something magical about an early winter morning. Today, I made my way up the Deerleap hill over looking the tiny city of Wells in Somerset. The sky was already changing. At first, it...
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Starling Trail
It has been a while but the starlings are back roosting at RSPB Ham Wall. I missed several opportunities in November, but eventually some good weather aligned with my time off from my day...
Life is a Festival
For me Glastonbury festival starts early in the morning at the stop of the tor watching the summer solstice sunrise. There is always an amazing atmosphere up at the top of world. Yesterday there...
Back on Tor
Having spent an evening, followed by an early morning, wondering around South Moor it was time to get back up Glastonbury Tor. It had been a while since my last trip and it always...
Spring Equinox
It is spring equinox again. Time to head up to the top of Glastonbury Tor. The more observant, looking at the feature image for this post, will have realised that I took these pictures...
Bridges over Troubled Waters
Joining Westhay with Wedmore is a road called Blakeway. It cuts across the flat ground of the Somerset Levels. Apart from a couple of sharp bends near Sweets Tea Rooms this is a very...
Burrow Hill
There are several iconic hills in the Somerset Levels: Glastonbury Tor Nyland Tump Burrow Mump Burrow Hill Tor is probably from Welsh. Lump.. tump.. mump are lovely English words. Today it is the turn...
Deerleap Dawn
Deerleap This is the name of the narrow lane that runs up the southern face of the Mendip Hills from Wookey Hole. This steep hill overlooks the valley of the River Axe and the...
Willow Line
Pollarded Willows Before dawn and the sun glows from behind Glastonbury Tor. After a long cold wait the sun finally appears. At last some more warmth. And finally… A large flock of starlings from...
The Floods from Glastonbury Tor
I’m a bit jealous of all those people posting beautiful drone images on social media. I would love to get a drone, but I find their noise really annoying. This is probably because they...
