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

a stonechat sitting quietly (for once) on a favourite perch, and kidney vetch and thrift providing some Spring colour.

uplifted, turned, folded and warped layers of sedimentary rock indicate the enormous forces at work to shape the land around us. It wa...

at Northcot Mouth beach today, below scurvy grass and thrift and the big blue yonder

cotton grass growing in Kit Hill quarry. Very little wild life today. Is this blog getting boring, Spot asks himself?? It may be just that t...

the amazing shades of natural colour of kidney vetch within a few square yards of each other in the cliff top meadows on yesterday's wal...

HRH does a bit of posing while Spot goes fishing. Spot put his head completely under the water (as does his bro Vasco aka Tigger) several ti...

a pair of rock pipits (I think) flirting in a meadow full of spring squill and kidney vetch. And below showing off.

and here is scurvy grass growing in its natural habitat rather than by the roadside ( qv ), in an almost inaccessible little spot called Ba...

one of the nice things about walking in new places is that you find new plants. This is spring squill, which we have neither seen nor heard ...

we took the bold decision today to leave the safe confines of the Tamar valley and to explore the coast of North Cornwall. This is a small c...