Langridgeford: a year in photos

Luscious hawthorn hips

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

Deadly nightshade...

Window feeder: robin

Beast of Exmoor

Invasive bamboo

Lupins

Foxglove & bee

Common toad

Cow parsley

Aromatic roses