Weather coming in

The forecast said bright spells. The sky had other plans, and honestly it was the better show.

Long light on the moor

Midsummer-ish, which means the sun takes forever to go down and you start to think it might not bother.

Evening in the beech wood

A hot day, so we waited until the evening and drove out to the old beech wood. The road through it is so quiet that I got the camera down at tarmac level and …

The meadow nobody mows

There is a corner of the field behind the allotments that nobody mows. By June it is waist-high and full of ox-eye daisies, clover, sorrel and about a million insects.

Fern season

For about two weeks in June the bracken is new, soft and impossibly green, before it turns into the tough stuff that grabs your ankles for the rest of the year.