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I went up to investigate the road closure, this is the reason I am using phone photos and a borrowed Our village is small and this Road Closed sign is about a three minute walk from our house, actually You can see how narrow it is and this is a main road posing as a country lane. The good news was that they reckoned the road would re-open tomorrow night two days earlier than expected This is a natural spring at the side of the road, below, which I had never even seen before, the road

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas NOVEMBER. 03, 2020 [90-365] 3rd. November 2020- If I believed in pots of gold at the end of the rainbow I would be moved on opening the curtains this morning to see this sight. But I don't think you need to believe in superstition to marvel at a rainbow. The facts behind the rainbow are awe inspiring enough. The most awe inspiring fact about a rainbow to me is that no two people are looking at the same rainbow. When I first realised that it blew my mind. Even the person standing next to you is seeing a different rainbow to the one you see. The refracted coloured light is from individual drops of water in an incredibly thin arched line one water droplet thick, perfectly aligned at the correct angle between the sun and your eye, so the person next to you is seeing the refracted light from different drops of water. But even more amazingly those drops of water are constantly falling and being replaced by others which also line up perfectly giving the impression of a stable unmoving image. Why is it an arc shape? Because all along that arc the water droplets achieve the correct angle to refract the light, outside of that arc shape they don't achieve the correct angle between the sun and your eye. Because we see the rainbow from the ground it appears as an arc. If you ever get to see a rainbow from a plane it is circular. So more of a rainwheel than a rainbow. The French word for rainbow is "arch in the sky" "arc en ciel". In looking up the word in other languages I liked the Finnish word Sateenkaari literally translated as rain arc. The Italians call it a lightning bow "arcobaleno" associating it with stormy weather. In Greek mythology Iris is the personification of the rainbow linking humanity to the Gods. It's apt then that we have an iris in our eye which controls the amount of light we see.

Bluebells and wild Garlic.

The roof of the bandstand in Victoria Park, recently restored. Classic Dartmouth view. Below is the main road out of Kingswear. The carved rood screen dates from the 15th century.

which means you are looking at the road and not the village. it came as something of a surprise that it even had a church which is set back and raised above the road In the porch is a very good example of the head of a Spurrell’s type of cross. Although the cross looks quite old and weather beaten, it is still in very good condition. Granite ashlar with low pitched hipped slate roof with wide bracketed eaves.

I get the roots and fruits but brutes? It beggars belief that the roof has been covered in solar panels while the concrete structure underneath

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas FEBRUARY. 13, 2021 [196-365] 13th. February 2021- Photoblog has been inundated with photos of ice and snow for weeks now, so it is becoming clear that there is a definite northern bias in this blogosphere. Personally I can live without both so I consider myself lucky that so far we have missed out on this wonder of nature. We do have the next best thing though at the moment as the lane has Snowdrops in abundance. Little clumps popping up every few yards. As you go up the lane the hedgerow rises up above you so that the Snowdrops are popping out all over, at eye level and you get a chance to see them close up in all their beauty without having to lie on the ground. An actor walking up the lane could slip into a moment of reverie, imagining they were on stage with a tiered audience of admirers, rising steeply on either side, approving a performance, as the tiny animated flowers nod away in a breeze, that rustles the thousands of dead leaves in the canopy above into applause. There was only one Primrose to be found just squeezing it's tiny face out from behind an autumnal oak leaf.

But there was a good reason for this. It's a win win for food companies who can charge a 50% premium by separating natural foods into their Here's a good game. Good old Delia, she's at it with the puns again. Proper Mushy peas are angel food.

On the plus side for a photographer there is virtually no traffic on the road to Babeny. The road is a dead end, so is Babeny. I dread to think what happens when it snows up here.

Over a mile of pathways were laid down in the early 19th century to provide access to the woods, and Puzzle Wood also has the advantage of being the perfect habitat for ferns.

siege with holidaymakers at the moment, but I don't begrudge them having some freedom and even some good It was good but not yet at it's best.

The road itself has no surface, just rubble and more ferns. It is the roof of the great barn. This is the posher roof inside Cotehele House itself. Here is the history of England writ large. Here is the roof of one of those markets of London, Ledenhall. Now at Calstock we segue from stone carving to wood carving.