• January Shifts
Thursday, 21 January 2016 Leave a comment
Three shots of turbulent clouds, looking north (10 January 2016).
• Downpour in the woods
Sunday, 3 January 2016 4 Comments
Last night’s rain over Cornwall gave us a slight inkling of what the floods have done to Scotland and the north of England in recent weeks. It tipped down during the night and the roads were soon awash with flash torrents. On the wooded lower slopes of the moor the water was racing across the grass, tumbling through the normally dry gaps between the trees and boulders just as it did on 1 January 2014. And I was photo-bombed for the first time.
• Out Delivering Christmas Cards…
Thursday, 17 December 2015 Leave a comment
On my circular walk o’er fields and through mud to deliver Christmas cards, I turned back to see Stowe’s Mound framed by a Japanese/van Gogh tree and lowering clouds just masking the early afternoon sun. A bit apocalyptic for the season of goodwill.
• Fieldfare
Sunday, 1 November 2015 Leave a comment
Fieldfare having a field day on autumn berries in the back garden. I counted thirteen birds.
• Bearah and Kilmar in the autumn mist
Friday, 30 October 2015 Leave a comment
On one of my favourite walks, this time with two friends who’ve not been on it before, past the ‘faery’ glen of oaks and boulders strewn across the middle reaches of Shales Brook, then through the sometimes impenetrable mist lying between Bearah and Kilmar Tors, and round via the old quarry railway track, past startled cattle, to the far left-hand side of Kilmar, overlooking Trewortha Farm (invisible in today’s weather). Up to our right loomed the unmistakeable profile of West Turret (see one of last year’s posts Stupendous Pile). Altogether very atmospheric and wet.
• Cricket
Monday, 19 October 2015 Leave a comment
I had to look this up. I now know that what I saw on the other side of the living-room window was a cricket and not a grasshopper: relaxed back legs, long antennae. Pretty magnificent, especially seen from ‘underneath’ (despite the camera reflection…).
• A Charm of Goldfinches
Monday, 14 September 2015 Leave a comment
I had some old nyger (niger/nyjer) seed left and so I scattered them on the ground in what I thought was a vain hope to attract the goldfinches that sometimes visit the garden at this time of year. It has been an inordinate success. Flocks have colonised the patch for a week, numbering over two dozen at some times. My little Canon Ixus has only a x12 optical zoom, so I could not get the close-up that the subject warranted, but here’s the best impressionist shot of the bunch. Note to self: get a better zoom for next year!
• Morwenstow
Monday, 31 August 2015 Leave a comment
It’s a fair old trek up and over the coastal terrain north of Morwenstow, but even on a dull day the views of the rock formations are as extraordinary as ever. While the famous church and vicarage (or, rather, the church with a famous vicar) huddles beneath the skyline, the GCHQ radio listening station a couple of miles to the south stands out like a sore thumb. The dishes are even visible from the moor above my house an hour’s drive away…
• Botallack
Thursday, 4 June 2015 Leave a comment
On a three-day trip round West Penwith with Polish friends, we went down to see the engine houses of Botallick’s Crown Mines, the most photographed site in Cornish mining history for its stunning and perpendicular location.
• Up in the Green Wood
Friday, 22 May 2015 Leave a comment
The wood in May, brilliantly green, with other tones too. And benches!
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