Langridgeford: a year in photos

Following the curve

Dipper pool

Into the pasture

Our home: first year completed

Amazing tree

Marsh edge

Light & shade

Meander with bluebells

Bluebells & garlic

Red Campion

Tractor on the trail

Exploring the tractor

Comma

Peacock

Cuckoo flowers

First BBQ

Slow worm

Apple blossom

Green tunnel

Colour, light, reflection

1905 map

1840 tithe map

Wild garlic flower

Late afternoon sun

Unexpected hail

Campanula

Saxifraga

Exploring

Lords-and-ladies

Water celery explosion

Moved pear blooming

Grey skies

Burr

Potted

Cosy

Red Admiral

Dappled shade wildflowers

Marsh Marigolds

Dog-violets

Wild Bluebells

Tarr Steps walk

Skunk Cabbage

Knightshayes

Funky tulips

Ilfracombe

First cream tea of 2026

Exmoor Pony Centre

Tarr Steps walk

Wetherspoons Wellington

Tulips

Daffodil

Hele Bay

Brushcutting debris

Spring bonfire

Wild garlic

Fluffy  Grape Hyacinths

New rose garden

Fields of sheep & lambs

Bargain plants

Moss & ivy

Riverside: rocks & shingle

Pickle stalking pheasant

Orchard Honey

Wild strawberry blossom

Water skaters

Moon slither

Hazey Torrington

Budding Spring

Pickle expolring

Cosy cat

Perrywinkle

RHS Rosemoor Spring

RHS Rosemoor carving

Camellia blossom

Pussy willow

Honey

Wild daffodils

Heavy hail

First bumblebee

Lesser Celandine

Laurel berries

Colourful reflections

Full flow

...& the long, fresh walk

Environmental cows

Fluffy lichen

Forsythia

Hawthorn blossom

Braunton Burrows flora

& rushes

Driftwood, Saunton Sands

Wood Anemone

Blackthorn blossom

King Alfred's Cake fungi

Bracket fungi

Daffodils on St David's Day

Primroses on the meadow

...and in the banks

First blossom

Visit from the King

New garden lights

Let sleeping cats lie...

Native Daffodils

Sun & shadows

Light & shade

Moon, clear as day

Great Tit & Blue Tit

Litereary Festival at Watchet

Watchet Harbour

Mole hole

First Pancake Day here

Wet Watchet

Literary Watchet

Dryad limbs

Scarlet Elf Cup fungi

Whose hole?

Elusive (from camera) goldfinch

First native primroses

Primula

Crocus

Snowdrops by night

Honey walking the land

Walking the land

...and water

Interesting rocks

Pink skies

Sunlight & reflections

Jelly Ear fungi

Dramatic skies from car - sun & moon

Birds on feeder

Wild Snowdrops

Random rocks

Random doors

Heart's tongue - texture & colour

Stream & bridge

Full moon

Purple catkins

Old road

Moss

River glimpsed

Blue Tits

Coal Tit avoiding Great Tit

Bright ivy

Colourful catkins

Highest?

Torrent

Droplets

Free but not yet out...

Tree tops

Skyline

Into the lion's den...

Clear night sky

Ferns

Robin

Officially an orchard

Clarity of light

Wild snowdrops

Hazel catkins

Taw Estuary, Fremington

Home Farm Marsh, Fremington

Tretower Castle

Caerphilly Castle

Balanced birds

Hawthorn berry

Blue Tit

Tretower, Wales

Llangorse Lake

Mynydd Llangorse

A smattering of snow

Coal Tit

Nuthatch

Full moon backlighting

Frosty morning

Cold drama

Leaks

New Year's Day and...

the boys

walk the river

Primroses

Family gathering, The Coaching Inn, South Molton

A cold but mellow year's end

...New Year's Eve

sand dunes...

& sea

Lynmouth...

to Watersmeet

Old school gaming

Ol the troll, Heywood Castle, Boxing Day

Proudly walking the land with our New Zealand family

Northam Burrows...

Look up & be surprised! Knightshayes

Berry Iron Age Hillfort, Huntshaw Woods

Christmas Eve, low bright sun

Roe deer hoof print

Random red berries

Pickle's tree laid bare

Paw prints in the frost

Gorgeous views

Heating!

RHS Rosemoor Glow...

Lights, textures & shadows

Snow Rose/Snow Dance hellebores

Beam Aqueduct from the Tarka Trail

A cold and frosty morning, Torrington

Tree bridge

Dramatic sky

Kitsch Christmas tree

Christmas wreaths...

using foliage from our land

Clearing the pond and moving mountains

Glimpsing through the trees

Roaring, swirling, chocolatey torrent

Christmas lights

A walk in the dark

Copper Beach

Marshy ground

Beautifully dishevelled

Rainbow before deluge

River run-off in...

& out

Streaming... again!

Rain drops

Moody Somerset skyline

Dinner at The Stags Head, Filleigh

Orion - clear skies

Victorian roller

Different angle

Old floors

& close-up

Beaches reverting to islands

Stir-up Sunday

Golden light on golden Oaks

Waiting for snow - light play

Great Tit

First frost

Peering through...

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Ear fungi

Ripe Spindle

Willow bark fungi

Shite stag mark 2

Bare tree

Random old tools

Dulverton Literary Festival

Alder bark

Gloomy day

Honey in the wind & rain

Fog

Last sloes

Streaming

River voices

More river voices

Rainy day

Last of the apples

Apple tree lichen

Living life dangerously...

Dramatic skyline

Raging torrent

Drainage streams

colourful reflections

Hedgerow bank

Autumn sun

More Autumn sun

The Exeter Inn, Chittlehamholt

Bramble clearing

Bird's nest

Bonfire

Wet & windy walk

Alder

Lesser spotted woodpecker

Hawthorn berries for birds

The Globe Hotel, Torrington

Autumn red

Blossoms

Coal tit

Cat bridge

Dandelion

Briony

Muted light and reflections

Grey wagtails

Focus

Arlington

Tree clearing

Last blackberries

Long shadows

Oh deer evidence

Autumn leaves

Old soda bottle unearthed

Old soda water factory - Barnstaple

Pickle hiding in hedgerow

Defunct station sign

Static

Pheasant party

Pink sky

Walled garden

Ollie as Gollum

Spooky skyline

Bonfire & tumbledown treehouse

Chasey chasey

Mystery ruin...

...but celebrations!

Pickle enjoying the Doom Hazel

Honey enjoying the Doom Hazel

Spindle

Late red campion colour

camera trapped - Nut Hatch

Camera trapped - Long-tailed Tits

Gloomy day...

First of the season mincemeat

Changing leaves (Elder)

Golden light

On the prowl...

Chaffinch under cover

Cleared pond

Glimpses of cows

Autumn mushrooms

Wasp eggs?

Dipper pool - collapsing bank

Nettle leaf - in the detail

Coal Tit

Sheltering from a rain shower

Late colour

Kes Tor

Roundpound

Inclement weather...

but beautiful skies

Great Tit

Ilfracombe Aquarium

Honey enjoying the Doom Hazel

Honey hiding in a bramble den

Ramshackle treehouse uncovered

Possible Willow Tit

Luscious hawthorn hips

A walk with the catlings

Trre identification...

Pickle enjoying the Doom Hazel

Pickle in the new pond

Dying flowers

Rainy roses

Tiny acorns

Spindle

Himalayan Balsam bashing

Tree cat

Plant based waffles in Barnstaple

Torrington Mini Rally

Froglet

First brew: pear & sultana wine

Riverbank roots

Guelder rose

Deadly nightshade

Snail

Runners

Juicey elderberries

Accompanying cats

Willow sapling

Dock leaves

Bradninch Black

Rosemoor stag

Sloe gin

Large white

Our meadow from the other side of the river

Ripening hazel nuts

Sloes

Deerling

Devon & Cornwall Longwools at the North Devon Show

Ruins at Halsdon Nature Reserve

First pickles

Garden produce!

Stone Farm open garden

First blackberries

Misty inspecting the new steps

Steps with reclaimed feet!

Sculptural oaks

Liz Shakespeare - North Devon Show

Vanilla nemesia

Candyfloss sky

Not Bryony - Deadly Nightshade!

Umberleigh Garden Show

Honey on a walk

Golden-ringed dragonfly

Juvenile Sparrow or Chiffchaff?

Beach at Ilfracombe

First roe deer caught on camera trap

Purple loosestrife?

Chaffinch

Meadow sweet

Apples & pears

Hydrangeas

Gloaming on the land

First pheasant

Axe Valley Wildlife Park

First late night BBQ

Peacock butterfly

Proper gloaming

Developing blackberries

Common bird's-foot trefoil

Bees enjoying the flowers

Developing bracken

Small nectar loving wasps

Red Admiral

Beautiful demoiselle

Himalayan Balsam

Old Langridgeford post

Little shores

Rowan tree

Hydrangeas for show?

Silver-washed fritillary

Bumble bee

Night fox

Oak leaf broach - South Molton Museum

Our local - The Riser, Umberleigh

Dipper pool

Wagtails

Bread oven...

Surprise!

Demise of the bamboo

Ghost hydrangea

Mystery deer hoof print

Medieval Torrington

Torrington Castle wall daisies

Forget-me-nots

Nuthatch

Cow parsley takes over...

Less bamboo, more riverbank

Marsh Tit or Willow Tit?

Langridgeford 1981

by James Ravilious

Today

Juvenile Blue Tit

Meadow Brown butterfly

Redcurrent crop

Tawny Owl feather?

Comma butterfly

Dunnocks

Rambling rose

Wandering Pheasant

Impressionistic...

Mystery plant

Siskin

Sinister mood...

The bit at the front becoming a cottage garden

Busy Lizzies

Mystery bird?

Camera trap

Fluffy grasses

Local cream tea: The Old Farmhouse, Dodscott

Bold Great Tit

Mint harvest...

and produce... ice-cream!

First evening: the land

Working post box

Bluebells & wild garlic

Diverse hedgerow

Marsh marigolds

Healthy ash tree

"There's something rotten in the state of Denmark..." 

First flower boxes

Local cider: Sam's Cider, Winkleigh

Goodbye nettles...

hello robin

Dark nights

Apple blossom

Common lizard

Cockchafer

Celandine

Dandelion

View: Castle Hill car park, Torrington

May blossom

Baby oak tree

Walk from Yarnscombe

Croyde beach

Applets

More local cider: Honeywood Orchard

Tarr Steps, Exmoor

Red campion

Flag iris

Close-up, elderflower