a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17

  Morning glory with Spot and Harriet

The best example yet of this strange phenomenon.  And the eerie light on a snowy Kit Hill this morning.

It was a good to be alive sunny morning on Kit Hill today.

the beacon on Kit Hill casting a fiery light into the heavens

Kit Hill quarry provides a wonderful range of tones with only hints of green at the moment. It has warmed up so quickly that crowfoot is...

a beautiful sunny morning with a thick mist lying in the Tamar valley. As the mist receded the whole village of Downgate appeared beneath ...

soft grey colours in the quarry on Kit Hill, and one inhabitant showing off the length of his tail. It is worth clicking on the Kit Hi...

the water in Kit Hill quarry has frozen solid but no dogs were allowed to try it out given recent tragic events. It is so cold that an icefa...

the first view from Kit Hill below is towards Plymouth. The English Channel is the thin sliver of bright light at the top right. . The seco...

It has been unusually cold for this part of the world recently. From the Saturday before Christmas until the middle of last week the roads w...

and still it rains, the ewes must be soaked. Dartmoor is on the far horizon, Hingston Down to the right.

It was a very clear day, and this photo shows the Tamar valley (very flattened by the perspective), and in view are the villages of Luckett,...

nearby and for the first time on Kit Hill, we found some orchids. They look like southern marsh orchids (having no spots on the leaves and t...

bird's foot trefoil, showing why it is sometimes called eggs and bacon, and below a vigorous clump of eyebright, possibly nemorosa angli...

intricate and mysterious imagery from the quarry at Kit Hill. It looks like a natural (wild) version of a Japanese garden, or vice versa

Kelly Bray mine workings (now a world heritage site) in foreground, and Linkinhorne parish church in background, and Bodmin moor in far dist...

crab apple blossom, growing on Kit Hill where today I heard a cuckoo for the first time this year. Early purple orchids are growing in abund...

looking west from the very top of Kit Hill. Pensilva and St Cleer hardly visible in the background, Callington in the middle ground, the pac...

Yesterday morning (Saturday) was a fine, cold morning with ice under foot and fascinating colours in the rocks.

slightly smaller than a rook and with a darker beak, this crow posed very nicely in front of the view from Kit Hill