Sometimes a short trip fills me up even more than a longer one. My late summer walks took in miles over moors and coast, and I took bus trips to Penzance, Sennen, St. Ives, and Morvah. Storm Agnes blew quickly through mid-week with high winds, dark clouds and rain behind. Good day for cosy projectsContinue reading “All Over the West in September”
Category Archives: Environment
March
Early spring in West Penwith… some good walks and sunny days in between more unsettled wet weather. Saw some wonderful wildlife – soaring buzzards (Buteo buteo), kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), seals and oystercatchers, the peacock butterfly (Aglais io) and miner bees on dandelions. Did quite a bit at the flat, as well, including more plants andContinue reading “March”
Penwith Landscape Partnership
Whenever I have found a way to give some of my time and energy, it has always broken the laws of physics and given me back more. The Penwith Landscape Partnership is a collaboration of multiple groups and agencies in West Penwith focused on the incredible environment and history of this land. I had theContinue reading “Penwith Landscape Partnership”
Eight and a Half
I set off walking on a glorious Saturday morning through the village of Tregeseal in the Kenidjack valley and then up to Hailglower Farm and the moorland beyond. Views of St. Just – the Medieval parish church tower stands on the left, and the Wesleyan Methodist chapel on the right. The ocean beyond. I loveContinue reading “Eight and a Half”
August
There’s a drought across Europe under blue skies and relentless sun. We gaze on golden fields and hay bales, stunted brassicas in dusty rows, Cornish hedges browning. The streams and reservoirs are retreating. It’s also summer hols, kids kicking a ball on the Plein, ice cream cones, heading for the beaches, Scarlet Pimpernel at theContinue reading “August”
March Flowers
Spring begins in Penwith hedges, roadsides, and valley copses.
Tremenheere
A magical place to visit. I don’t want to give it away with too many photos, because it’s one of those places that you need to see and feel for the first time. It’s a garden, rescued and rebuilt from wilderness. It’s been filled with sculptures and art. The architecture of old trees hides tropicalContinue reading “Tremenheere”
Flat Two 