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

At last summer has arrived with some warm sunshine. The meadows are full of wild flowers. This is a heath fritillary (female) feeding on ...

enormous wisteria climbing over end of incline railway at Calstock (see this link Calstock information )

Spring is coming! Interesting complex snowdrop near Latchley today.

another real local rarity is cornish bladderseed, seen here growing in profusion in the meadows.

large red damselflies mating (top), a small heath butterfly (middle), and a miniature forest of marsh lousewort growing in the moss ...

One of the great pleasures of walking repeatedly through the same places is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of what is in the env...

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

this rather magnificent climber is black bryony, the only native member of the yam family. It climbs by curling invariably in a clockwise...

Although the bluebells are past their best in the woods, they continue to flourish in shadier areas like this stretch of Rowden lane, an o...

The hawthorn is out! and nothing goes to waste around here, exotic fallen Camelia flower tea

Lords and Ladies (aka cuckoo pint and other scurrilous names ) in flower. Almost all have the tip of the spadix eaten away. Wiki states t...

Spot, some pheasant's eyes and some dog violets

It looks like an oriental landscape of woods and rocky escarpments, in fact it is the small landscape of a moss covered wall

It was a lovely sunny morning, and the cherry tree in front of Cleave farm was in full blossom. Usually at this time of year we get gales...

A brilliant display of celandines on Broadgate lane, and a brilliant display of yellowness by a male brimstone.

The daffodil season is at its height now. These impressive double daffodils are growing wild at Old Mill but may well be a long establis...

It has been a beautiful day. All the early butterflies (brimstone, red admiral and tortoiseshell) were out, the sap is rising, the birds a...

Feisty lamb (one of last years unless they are growing even faster) harassing timid dogs. And below the native wild daffodil is beginnin...

Despite all this stormy weather, or possibly because it has been so mild, the annual cycle has started again. Snowdrops are out in profu...

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