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

Light pouring into the woods today, and, away from the sun's warmth, a frost flower in bloom.

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 used to be a quiet wooded valley full of larch! Anyone who knows this area would be hard pushed to recognise the dam below Old Mill f...

in the woods today

This is a view I never wanted to see. Our village was surrounded by conifer plantations and mixed deciduous woods. Suddenly we have ...

The bluebell display this year is not as dramatic as usual. The cold wet weather after a dry sunny March seems to have confused the plan...

the bracket fungus eye (if they have an eye) view of the tree

At this time of year in the meadows it feels as if the party is over, the tussocks are drab and collapsed, seed heads look like cigar...

our morning walk (or in Spot's case madcap sprint), along the Inny, through the woods, bathed in golden sunlight and enjoying the wa...

wood anemones and daffodils, and a few celandines, flowering in profusion on the floor of ancient woodlands.

out today we saw a fox ambling across a field which is unusual in broad daylight, the cold must be forcing them out to scavenge. We also cam...

much more rain on the saturated ground and it will flood. Very strong winds blowing today, the English hurricane season has started.

Carletta came all the way from Maine to visit us. As you can see she was very easy to train, and we quickly had ourselves eating out of the ...

It was a lovely, soft sunny light this morning, with a blue tinge to the mist in the Tamar valley below providing a marked contrast to the ...

beautiful colours from deep in the woods on a still, sunny day

at almost the same time of year last year, and under similar very frosty conditions, we found these peculiar looking excrescences on dead tw...

in the woods, and an out of season (completely) rhododendron (ponticum) flower, giving the woods a feel of the jungle

a deceptive and beautiful image from a long walk by the Tamar today. It was raining leaves, but it is very difficult to capture that image.

oh what fun it is to run around until you misjudge how deep the swamp is. No dogs were harmed in the taking of these photographs which is mo...

I have never seen a stem of ivy as thick as this one invading a hedge oak like some alien monster emerging from the bowels of the earth ... ...