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.

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.

The Jammie Dodgers are the favourite snack food of singer Labrinth and Dr. Who.

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.

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.

Idea - Go somewhere you know well and do a stroll around with a camera to see it in close up. Result - A lot of photos which defied any sort of logical grouping so I have just placed them here randomly. So here is the town of Kingsbridge in close up. If you know Kingsbridge, then how well do you know it? Scroll as far as you can and if you make it to the end I will answer this recent quiz question I came across. What is a Mouse Potato? A Mouse Potato is a computer equivalent of a Couch Potato, so if you have made it this far...................

Park at Drakeford bridge car park and cross the old narrow road bridge over the river Bovey. Back in the 1790's maps still showed this bridge as part of a road network, albeit these were roads for Hisley woods are shown on the right but the tracks are missed out. follow the old Manaton Road. By now you have climbed up into the woods.

The weather has also been fairly good so more piccies. They are very good indicators of clean air, so maybe that is their mission. Actually it was more of a bar or a "Zinc" that served food. Slate roof with gable ends and gable end stack to left. This is the Rood Screen which I believe is "modern", though it is difficult to be sure what they mean

Robin Hood Gardens was a residential estate in Poplar, London, designed in the late 1960s by architects The announcement in 2008 of the intent to demolish Robin Hood Gardens prompted one of the largest ever In 2015, the application to give Robin Hood Gardens listed status was turned down and demolition was

These included Wallaby Lane, Wombat Road, Ding Bat Alley, Digger Road, Dinkum Alley but perhaps the most iconic of these was Roo De Kanga. Roo De Kanga is a classic example of the Australian sense of humour, transforming the word Kangaroo into street' in French is 'rue') In 1997 in honour of those soldiers the commune of Peronne restored the name Roo

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas AUGUST. 10, 2020 [4-365] 9th August 2020- I recently rediscovered these tiny toys from my childhood. They are sandalwood boxes with a secret inside. The largest box is 25 mm high, about 1 inch. Inside each box is a tiny red seed about 10 mm across or a 1/4 inch. Each seed is hollow and has a tiny white elephant carving which acts a little like a cork in a wine bottle, which seals a hole in the top. Reputedly inside each seed are 100 ivory elephants so small you need a magnifying glass to see them. Sadly one sneeze and they are gone, and given I probably tipped them out to count them several hundred times as a child more than fifty years ago and then struggled to put them all safely back, it is not surprising that having just recounted them after all this time the most I found in any one seed was 14. Which is still impressive so long as you are not expecting 100. At some point, I will show you the inside and the elephants. I will have to dig out my macro lens for that though.