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• Autumn Berries

Tuesday, 21 October 2014 Leave a comment

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• Deer, deer, deer

Monday, 29 September 2014 Leave a comment

Occasionally, roe deer leap over the fence between the wood and the back garden, but today this one leaped another fence into the recently scrub-cleared front garden, just outside the living room.

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• How Now, Brown Cow?

Friday, 1 August 2014 Leave a comment

My way up to Bearah was blocked by this insouciant creature before I’d even got going.

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Up very early to observe the summer solstice dawn over distant Dartmoor and then up onto Sharp Tor that same evening for dusk. The first two photos were taken at around 05.00 from Rillaton Barrow near Minions. A hearty breakfast was then had at the nearby pub. The third photo caught a very stubborn sheep about to be released from its self-imposed ensnarement. The remaining photos were taking from Sharp Tor, looking over to Kilmar, with one glance down into the valley towards Devon.

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• Up Frenchman’s Creek

Wednesday, 11 June 2014 Leave a comment

A little trip up to Frenchman’s Creek and back. IMG_4231 copy

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• Bluebells

Saturday, 24 May 2014 Leave a comment

Here are a few shots of bluebells taken over the past week in and around the house and wood, with additional glimpses of deer in the early-morning haze, pink celandines, last year’s bracken stalks and this year’s fragrant hawthorn blossom. It is the most blissful time of year in nature’s calendar.

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• The big rains (Bearah Valley)

Wednesday, 1 January 2014 Leave a comment

In two days’ time I leave for a 16-week perambulation up, down and across France. I shall save my photographs from this trip until a future time. But the signs of a dry start to my expedition are not auspicious. Today – the first of 2014 – I went up towards Bearah Tor to see the state of the early stretches of Shales Brook. The water was streaming through boulders and across the grass in furious torrents. Rather impressive!

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• Russet dawn on Sharp Tor

Sunday, 24 November 2013 2 Comments

Sharp Tor often shimmers in pink at dawn, but today it glowed in russet.

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• Amongst trees (round to Hawk’s Tor)

Saturday, 14 September 2013 Leave a comment

Some trees, fungi, ivy, a stone wall reputedly built by French prisoners during the Napoleonic wars, and a shaded gate. All in a day’s walk down into the Lynher valley then up again onto the flanks of Hawk’s Tor.

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