Showing posts with label North Devon Coast and Country Chronicle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Devon Coast and Country Chronicle. Show all posts

Friday 2 February 2024

Shining Light. North Devon Winter skies.

Despite named storms, high winds and torrential rain, the light shone through the window this Winter. Those dismal skies were interspersed with some colour full evening and morning light. Starting with the Cold Moon, aka the Long Night Moon, the first full moon after the Winter Solstice and ending with the Wolf Moon. 

Love nature - always expect the unexpected. Photo clips by Pat Adams North Devon Focus. Relax, reboot, reconnect while you watch this quick snapshot of the January skies.


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Thursday 21 December 2023

Joy to the World. Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings, Happy Holidays

I'm sending "Joy to the World" and Season's Greetings to all my followers. Thank you so much for visiting, commenting and liking the pictures and posts on my North Devon Focus Website, Blog, Facebook, Flickr and Instagram. Thank you for sharing your news and local events. 

It's been another tough year for everyone so I think we all deserve a little sparkle. 
Hope this little Robin Red Breast brings you joy.
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Here's to a happier, healthy, peaceful 2024

STAY SAFE 

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National Robin Day - 21st December
In 2015 the Robin was crowned as Britain's national bird

Tuesday 10 May 2022

England. Pastoral scenes in the North Devon countryside.

Moments of peace in the countryside. We headed for the horizon and the bright yellow of the rapeseed fields, the vibrant yellow was slightly muted by the sea mist rolling in. The photos taken capture the patchwork fields, winding country lanes and wildflower filled verges, England's green and yellow pleasant land. Flower power in the Devon countryside does the heart good. Wish everyone, everywhere could experience such tranquility.
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Thursday 9 January 2020

North Devon Focus Coast and Country Chronicle 2019

A colourful reminder of the year around the Bideford Bay area, Exmoor and beyond. Looking forward to a bright and beautiful 2020 on the North Devon Coast. Thanks for visiting and following. 

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Wednesday 7 November 2018

Out and About Autumn

Late October through November is a wonderful time for capturing those autumnal colours in North Devon. What artist or earnest photographer or snapper isn't inspired by nature at this time and one of our favourite walks, come rain or shine, is around Rosemoor Garden. No matter what season there is always something to catch my eye and last week I concentrated on the majestic trees, capturing the foliage before the high winds or as is so common nowadays another named Storm or Hurricane rolls in. I think Oscar was the last one or was it Callum. Last year at this time we braced for Hurricane Ophelia, amazingly the Met Office UK Storm Centre now has an A-Z of storm names.  

The RHS Garden Rosemoor is in a particularly sheltered spot surrounded by over one hundred acres of woodland so as well as the formal gardens there are upper and lower woodland trails to explore. Here are just a few of the vibrant specimens that caught my eye. I particularly like the Chinese Cedar (Toona sinensis) aka Bastard Cedar down by the Lake, the Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) in the Bicentenary Arboretum, the impressive Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) by Rosemoor House and best of all the glorious Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum) on Lady Anne's drive. According to Rosemoor's Curator, Jon, this tree, planted by Lady Anne Berry in a bed bordering the main lawn, is about forty years old and pre-dates the RHS at Rosemoor. There was once a large pond here which the RHS filled in when they created the new lake on the other side of the garden in 1992, the tree still sits in a very wet spot which it enjoys as being a swamp cypress likes to have its feet in water. (Article Pat Adams - with thanks to Sally and Jon for help with Tree ID's)

 North Devon Focus. Out and About Autumn. Photo copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)
Shades of Autumn
North Devon Focus. Out and About Autumn. Photo copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)
Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica)
North Devon Focus. Out and About Autumn. Photo copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)
Shades of Autumn
Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
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Thursday 11 October 2018

Bursting with life. A country walk on the North Devon Coast

I love it when the sun breaks through the trees. I always try to capture a sunburst and I try even harder not to look into the sun to do it.

It was as warm as a Summer's day on the North Devon Coast today. I think it may have made it into the record books as one of the hottest October days for some time. 

As I wandered down the track towards the coast there was a lot of leaf fall, not much fall colour. The old Beech leaves are still green, I normally wait until November for the leaves to turn. Looks as though the National Trust have been working hard mowing the coastal meadows and clearing up the Bracken. The old Apple Tree must have weighed heavy with apples, lots of juicy red ones now lying on the ground important for birds, bugs and wildlife stocking up for the winter. The newly renovated orchard now has a seat and will make a magical resting place for tired walkers. I miss the flowering then berry-filled Hawthorn but the plus side of losing that will be the sight of apple blossom in the years to come.

There was one huge fungi on the trunk of one of the old Beech trees last year, this year they are climbing up the trunk, mycelium at its best or worst if they are damaging the tree.

It was really hot on the coast path overlooking Bideford Bay and there were a few wildflowers still blooming beside the track. Devil's Bit Scabious, Red Campion, Fumitory, Autumn Hawkbit, Hawkweed and Yarrow. A few solitary bees but my attention was taken by a movement on the Yarrow,  a wonderfully fluttery teeny butterfly, a Small Copper. I watched the other day as a pair were dancing together in ,the permaculture garden at Tapeley. A fleeting moment, then it was gone, much like the Sunburst. (Article Pat Adams 10/10/2018)

Country life on the North Devon Coast. Photo copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)
Country life on the North Devon Coast. Photo copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)
 Peppercombe Orchard. Photo copyright Pat Adams (All rights reserved)
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Thursday 6 September 2018

Changing the ring TONE of the iconic RED telephone box

Ringing the changes for the iconic RED telephone box aka Kiosk No 2 and K6 are as British as cream teas and the royal family. Now in decline due to mobile phones they are being converted to house defibrillators and to charge those mobile phones which is great but do you think changing the ring TONE is a step too far! 

Shot of the recently painted box at Horns Cross between #bideford and #clovelly on the A39. If you know if this one contains a defibrillator or mobile phone charger leave a comment.

Photo copyright Pat Adams.North Devon Focus (All Rights Reserved)
Photo copyright Pat Adams.North Devon Focus (All Rights Reserved)

Wednesday 20 May 2015

Another Spring in an ancient woodland

Still no Swifts but at last I have seen the first signs of the Hawthorne blossom in my garden. The May Flowers will soon be putting on a spectacular display along the Atlantic Highway, a snowy white corridor, a magical gateway to Bideford Bay and the Hartland Heritage Coast. This is a perfect time for a walk in the countryside or a chance to explore an ancient woodland. By the middle of the merry month of May the leaves on the trees are a stunning vivid green, translucent in the sunlight, perfect, for a while at least, before the rain and the wind tarnishes them. The wonder of an ancient woodland, year after year the wild flowers return carpeting the ground, path verges and banks. The signs are there for all to see in early Spring, Snowdrops, Alexanders, Primroses, Dandelion, Yellow Pimpernel, Dogs Mercury, Herb Robert and Lesser Celandine. These are followed by Bluebells, Bugle, Cuckoo Flower, Speedwell, Wood Anemone, Red Campion, Greater Stitchwort, Woodruff, Dog Violet, Common Sorrel, Early Spotted Orchid, Creeping Buttercup and carpets of Ramsons. At this time of the year "In the Greenwood" it's fun to identify the trees by the shape of their pristine leaves Oak, Beech, Hazel, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Holly, Mountain Ash, Willow and more. Fighting for space in the woodland floor are a mass of upwardly mobile ferns, a host of rare grasses, lichens and maybe some fungi clinging to a fallen moss-laden tree. So much to see so enjoy your woodland WALK, WATCH & LISTEN

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