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

wild aquilegia, or columbine in the Tamar valley. Garden varieties tend to have smaller nectar horns and paler colours. The flowers re...

 When the Tamar floods it creates a new channel through the woods below Carthamartha. The debris contains many of the plastic tub...

We have experienced a succession of wet and windy days recently. It is hard to capture the wind in a photograph but the pampas grass give...

Reflections in the river, at Latchley, below Old Solomon's farm.

one of the crow family, that includes rooks, carrion crows, ravens and jackdaws,  that lives in the woods along the Tamar. It looks like a...

this photo, taken in Wareham woods (or Dunterhue woods, the names on the maps vary) looking West towards Carthamartha and Dunterton, gives...

The mallard squadron returns. Two drakes and a female showing off their fancy specula (?). the speculum (in birds) is a bright patch of c...

the Tamar below Lammerhooe, in its flood plain and calming down a bit before tomorrow's torrential rain

Bridge farm to Horsebridge, land not yet owned by rich banker

and the scene at Horsebridge this afternoon, Royal Inn still accessible but you may need to go now if you want a pint before Christm...

the turbulent Tamar at Horsebridge today. It is already breaking its banks and if it rains as much as is forecast tonight it will flood t...

the Tamar, below Luckett, looking North towards Horsebridge, and Penny's piece ( qv ) in its autumnal colours.

I only show again this unusual picture of our beloved river Tamar looking unusually blue to provide an opportunity to advertise a BBC pro...

the little hamlet of Tutwell, where Uncle Max was born, Dartmoor in the distance. Tutwell sits on the top of the Tamar valley. In the pano...

Pentillie Castle is an interesting place not unlike its better known cousin Cotehele. It has a strange history (see link ). The top pic...

the river at Tamar at Pentillie castle, looking down river towards Weir Quay (for photo up river in blog see this link ). Pentillie House ...

The clocks have gone back so we caught the early morning sun bathing the mists in the river valleys below on our first walk along our fav...

a comma warming up on an apple at Old Solomon's Farm, Latchley, and below the view looking up river towards Old Solomon's farm (o...

cowslips growing in abundance at Kingsmill farm (a very good place to stay if you are interested in the flora and fauna of the Tamar valle...

steam arrives at Cotehele this morning ... parking outside the pub of course (well, tea room now).