After leaving Dartmoor and driving through a vicious band of rain, we arrived at Praa Sands with time for a brief beach walk. Nice to find a few By-the-wind Sailors (free floating hydrozoans).
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| Happy - glad to be out ! |
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| By-the-wind Sailor..and below. |
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| And the first, of probably many, wave photos.... |
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| and time to go.... |
After our walk along the river Tavy, a quick nip out onto Sharpitor - a collapsed granite tor - for some good views.
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| Dartmoor ponies... |
After walking along the Tavy on the side opposite Bere Ferrers we returned to the carpark and crossed Lopwell Dam and walked through the woods and along the estuary to Bere Ferrers. The meal in The Olde Plough, in Bere Ferrers, was excellent and then the highlight of the walk back, was getting across the dam with literally less than 5 minutes to spare, before it was submerged by the incoming tide - the tides are very high at the moment!
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| Lopwell Dam on the way out... |
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| Walking through the woods... |
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| ..and along the estuary - nice wall! |
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| Looking upstream. |
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| Spindle. |
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| Fetid Iris. |
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| ..and back across the Dam... |
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| With the Dam disappearing rapidly! |
A far better than forecast day weatherwise and a glorious walk along the river Tavy - first along the bank opposite Bere Ferrers (where I lived when very young) and then secondly (next blog) by crossing Lopwell Dam (weir) and walking along through the woods and along the estuary to Bere Ferrers. It was nice to have the autumn colours, especially the beech, and lots of fungi as well as good birds, including two views of kingfishers.
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| Fly Agaric. |
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| Jelly Ear and various other fungi... |
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| Autumn Chanterelles/Yellow Legs. |
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| Bere Ferrers. |
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| Quality mud. |
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| Little Egret. |
It may appear that I haven't been doing a lot of artwork, but when I can, I have... My current project has involved a lot of thinking - trying to do things in the correct order and fusing glass! So here are a few photos of progress so far. I began by printing the back cloth - using a large sheet of polythene; rolling acryllic paint onto it, mark making with in it, adding acrylic inks and then taking a mono print on cloth. This was then quilted - by machine stitching and hand stitching ...I have planned where fused glass pebbles go on it, to represent the wet stones within the meltwater channel as well as felt pebbles, for the drier pebbles....there's quite a long wasy to go, but the photos may give you an idea of progress so far... There's organza layers and plenty of hand embroidery to be added yet as well...
A walk along the beach and a few finds.
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| It's ages since we've found a Roman fishing weight - that may be a loom weight, but given they are on the shore...although the shore has obviously moved over time ... |
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| Looking west into the sun. |
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| ....and north to Criffel. |
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| Nice ripples. |
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| Skate egg cases - with a couple of dogfish cases. |
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| ..and then there were two Roman fishing weights! |
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| ...and some pretty patterns. |
An earlyish start, being as it was half term, for a walk round Buttermere ...and some of the classic views.
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| Herdie, Buttermere and Fleetwith Pike. |
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| ...and closer up... |
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| The were plenty of autumn colours - sadly the sun wasn't out to show them off at their best. |
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| Looking up the lake ... |
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| Colours - not enhanced - just as they were. |
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| And the classic view... |
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| Plenty of water ... |
