Out of season...

2014...

Piercefield Woods - Chepstow

Something Wicked...

...this way comes.          

Before and During the Rain...

Looking down on Redbrook last night.

Redbrook - Higbury Woods Walk - (7:45pm start)

Just me and the angry Blackbirds.

Stately ancient Yews.

Tonight's walk framed by film and slightly forced.

Pellet-like rain.

Leaves tinkering in waves from ear to ear.

Bizarre phone light.

Footsteps dull underfoot.

Bumpy bowel of a Beech tree's bough.

Wrinkle knuckles.

Furious green slope drops below.

'Man trap' gates.

Rain coming in closer - leaves now hugging me with sound.

Holiday

Stopping the daily diary for now. Presently in Cornwall having a few days 'off'.

Back in the Valley soon.

Monmouth: Day 30

Golfing umbrella Gunnera.

Two Pugs in Brockweir.

Big and beautiful green sponges.

Two Wagtails over the tidal pulling Wye.

Tide line trees.

The river  - a sweeping brown conveyor belt.

Buzzard leading the way through the tree tunnels near White Brook.

Deer in the road - broad daylight - vaulted into hedge.