Get ready for April
Despite the endless rain of this March and the flooding across the Somerset Levels. We have been promised that spring is on its way. Spring is may peoples favourite season as flowers and butterflies...
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Spring Stroll
Over recent weeks the weather has been wet and surprisingly cold. So when the forecast improved for a day the only thing to do was to attempt to visit all my favourite neighbourhood woods....
Yarley Hill
A few years ago I often visited to this ash tree up on the hill above the village of Yarley in Somerset. Today, with a favourable weather forecast, I made a nostalgic trip to...
Happy Easter
I had to stop on my cycle ride to have a look at this wonderful post box in Yarley. Beautiful. Its Easter so here are some lambs… … and some daffodils. And the sun...
Wattles Hill
Cowslips on Wattles Hills in early April. Finding these flowers in beautiful low sunlight was the first hint that Wattles Hill was something special. Wattles Hill This unassuming low hill below the much higher...
Summer mist at Deerleap
If you follow the road out of Wells to Wookey Hole and up the hill to Ebbor Gorge to the car park, then it is only a short walk to the deer leap standing...
Life in Lockdown
When I last posted we had no idea how quickly things were about to change. In a time of spring sunshine we are staying at home. Who knows what is ahead and when or...
Mendip Panorama
I had a request for a panorama of the Somerset Levels from a specific field high up in the Mendip Hills. This week the weather had been so fantastic I headed up passed Model...
Wookey Hole Snow
Wookey Hole The Mini beast from the east. A couple of weeks after the Beat from the East when winter overtook spring in Somerset, along came its smaller sibling. The church of St Mary...
Another Round of Wild Garlic
Even from the outside you can see that something special is happening in Round Wood between Wells and Wookey Hole in Somerset. For many years I walked this wood each lunch time for a break...
