Bee orchid

10Jun08

Spotted on the way home yesterday, a variety of bee orchids by the roadside. It’s amazing what you see when you are on your bike instead of blasting around in your car.
I’ve not been very prolific of late. There are reasons which I won’t go into here, but regardless to say I’ve been [...]

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Flower of the moment

17Feb08

It’s probably a bit early to declare that spring has sprung.  For the first time in a long time I popped out with my camera today, down the coast to Shaldon.  The wind was very cold, and the sea was crashing up against the wall across the water at Teignmouth.  Someone or something had stirred [...]

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Dawlish Warren

29Dec07

Another day, another beach.  This time, Dawlish Warren.  Don’t you just love that gaping gap between Christmas and the New Year?  Usually there is something to watch on the TV, but not this year.  I was just thinking that we could really do with moving Christmas to June or July, that way we can have [...]

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Afternoon on the estuary

19Nov07

It was one of those days today where I was miles from my camera and there was a fabulous snap missed. There have been some dramatic skies today, lots of interesting and dark clouds, and for a while there were a couple of rainbows, one of which was very bright.  It certainly managed [...]

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The colours of autumn

15Nov07

Today I was under the branches of an old oak tree.  But a couple of weeks ago we were out at Mamhead and I took this snap looking out down the hill, towards the estuary in the distance.  I was struck by the subtle autumn colours.  The trees have given us a wonderful display this [...]

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Did you see the sea that I saw?

23Oct07

This is the sea that I saw.  Did you see this sea too?  This happy snap was taken on a walk on Sunday, along the South West coastal path into Dartmouth.  It was a lovely day for a walk – bright, not too cold, and dry under foot.  For a scary moment I thought we [...]

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Sea Aster (or could it be a Michaelmas Daisy?)

10Oct07

This happy snap comes from a weekend amble along the canal, next to the river, which flows into the sea. Most of the flowers are gone now, but there were loads of these purple lovelies crowding the banks. I’m not sure if they are sea asters, or if they are the commonly confused [...]

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Year of the Moth

30Sep07

The leaves are officially falling from the trees…. I saw it with my own eyes when we took a stroll in the wet Devonshire countryside this morning.  For me this year has been the year of the moth – the year when I stopped seeing them as something to dodge in an Italian toilet (putting [...]

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Big old tree

04Sep07

This is the base of the trunk of the tree in one corner of the car park at work.  It’s quite old, as you can see.  I can’t say that I have ever paid enough attention to it to identify it.  I think it’s an oak.  I’ll have to check it out tomorrow.  We have [...]

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Where’s the fairy?

29Aug07

We took a walk on Monday through Bellever Forest and up the tor. I’m usually quite good at orientation, but for some reason whenever we go there I have no idea where we are or which way we should be going. Fortunately when you get up to the tor it is quite easy [...]

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