We’ve been lucky enough to have a long dry and warm spell this autumn, so it was hard to resist the call of the local…
Tag: trees
An impression of English sycamore woods in the spring. Blue flowers and a blue sky of subtly different colour. These lesser-known undercliffs are to the…
A friend and I went up Pilsdon Pen to watch the midsummer sun rise. Despite a very chill breeze at just after 5am, we were…
One of a series of abstract impressions of a beautiful English wood at bluebell time. This can only begin to convey the joy of spending…
Dartmoor is commonly thought of as a bleak and treeless waste, but is home to a small number of ancient oak woodlands. In these sheltered…
This beech avenue is part of a grand estate, rather than a humble farm track like the one at Bindon. After an exploratory visit to…
A companion to White Wood in spring, this photo was taken just a few metres, and six months, from the other one. The bright russet…
Wistman’s Wood is an ancient dwarf oakwood on Dartmoor, with a floor of wonderful mossy boulders. I visited it on a cool misty day, and…
In my corner of East Devon, there is a tradition of planting single or double rows of beech trees alongside some country lanes. Bindon, a…