Bluebells and ferns along a footpath near Sampford Spiney last week, #Dartmoor #Devon. #photography
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Brentor church looking lovely today with bluebells on the lower slopes, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography
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Trying to do a bit of hype for my friend's #QueerOwnedBusiness: he'll be doing drop in talks on #UraniumGlass at #Exeter's #GandyStreet #FirstThursdays event on the 4th of June from Wand Vintage, https://www.wandvintage.com/, his antiques shop. It'd be great if anyone in #Devon could come along or share and get him a good crowd.
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Grimstone and Sortridge leat runs below Pew Tor today, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography
The late medieval made made water channel was originally designed to serve the manor houses of Grimstone and Sortridge,
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Bluebells in Burrator woods this week, #Dartmoor #Devon. #photography #mosstodon
What’s this in Burrator reservoir woods ? A Viking hog back stone a fairy mound or just a quarry stone covered in moss ? 😊 Taken this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #mosstodon #photography
I’m choosing the June picture for my 2027 Dartmoor charity calendar, all profits to Tavistock food bank
The choices this month are
Ox eye daisies in Peter Tavy churchyard
Foxgloves, Whitchurch Down,
Gate and meadow at Bellever. #Dartmoor #Devon #photography
Mossy bank and river Walkham at Grenofen woods today with added piskie hole, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography
Woodland details from Grenofen woods this week, fern growing from a tree stump, alder trunk, mossy oak trunk, and the river bank, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #mosstodon
Oaks and bridleway sign near Sheepstor earlier this month, #Dartmoor #Devon. #photography #mosstodon
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First foxgloves appearing on the moor, near Whitchurch Down yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography
Farewell May, pictures taken this month, #Dartmoor #photography #Devon
Clockwise, from top left, cow parsley near South Brentor, bluebells near Sheepstor, Brentor church, fields near Mary Tavy, hawthorn flower, pony at Middlemoor, red campions near South Brentor, bluebells at Burrator, view of cox tor.
The same lane near Burrator reservoir in February and May, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography
Ponies at Middlemoor, Whitchurch Down last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography
#BloomScrolling #Gardening #Devon
I'm really enjoying the high purpleness in the garden, with oodles of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and abundant second flowering of Wisteria, complimented by the deep pinkiness of Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination'. In there somewhere is also self-seeded Purple Toadflax. All a magnet for pollinators. I'm relishing them while I can, as they may not last in this heatwave.
P.S. This is a tiny garden, so plants like this have a real impact.
Spot the wheatear (bird), in this wall near Ingra Tor last Summer, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography.
Mild the mist upon the hill
Telling not of storms tomorrow..
The damp stands on the long green grass
As thick as morning’s tears,
And dreamy scents of fragrance pass
That breathe of other years.
Emily Brontè
#Dartmoor #Devon #photography #mistodon (?!)
A beautiful walk today along the South West Coast Path from Bovisand eastward.
For #WildFlowerWednesday here's some favourites:
Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) with Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) also commonly known as Hogweed Bonking Beetle
Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) seed head shining golden in the sun
Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) as fragrant as ever
Wild Thyme (Thymus praecox) fragrant *and* sumptuous colours
Saddle bridge near Combestone tor, a couple of summers ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #mosstodon
Wall and wildflower meadows, near Bellever, this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography
Stonecrop and moss, on a wall near Peter Tavy last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #mosstodon
I love this little hawthorn below Ingra Tor, its roots are covered in lichen and it always looks like a witch petrified in a tree …taken on Wednesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #witchtree
Under the oak branches, Burrator woods, a couple of weeks ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #mosstodon
