Native Bluebells – It takes your breath away when you accidentally come across a copse carpeted with bluebells. Standing on the outside, peering in through branches at ancient trees standing and fallen to the realm where only the deer reign, while the birds sing, and the sun shines, and the bright blue flowers stand tall by their thousands in dappled light ..read more

Charmouth Water Patterns – Natural abstract mosaic-like patterns of sunlight reflecting on small wind-driven ripples in shallow water among beach stones at Charmouth in Dorset ..read more

The water of a pool by The Retreat at Sculpture by the Lakes provides an opportunity for quiet contemplation. Ripples disturb the reflections creating interesting patterns in this short video clip ..read more

Oilseed Rape Flowers – There are fields of these bright flowers every Spring in the English countryside. When I was a child, my Father always told me that they were fields of mustard. I accepted that as a fact until well into adulthood. Now I know better. The plants are oilseed rape from the seeds of which edible oil is obtained and added to many products. Whatever, I think they look very beautiful especially when the sky is blue and the sun is shining. They cheer me up ..read more

Horse Chestnut Sticky Buds – Studies of leaf buds on Horse Chestnut trees in Spring at Charlton Down village in Dorset ..read more

Sand 31-36 VBDPIR Natural patterns on the dry sandy seashore at Ventry Bay on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, September 2014. Photos from the past ..read more

Dandelions growing en masse over a steep roadside embankment in the Dorset village of Charlton Down ..read more

Water & Light 11-15 RTLSB Patterns of reflected light on deep flowing water in the tidal River Thames in London, viewed from the South Bank, October 2015. Old photos – maybe ‘recycled’ water images ..read more

It’s that time of year again. The weather is warming up and spring flowers are evident in the grounds around Greenwood House and the wilder parts of the village in Charlton Down, Dorset. The first isolated clumps of bluebells have flowered. I think most of these are hybrids with the Spanish garden variety. There are quite a few pink or white ones among the pale blue. The native truly wild ones are forming layers of glossy leaves among the clumps of trees in various places but the flower buds are not yet visible ..read more

Lesser Celandines (Ranunculus ficaria) in the Dorset countryside at Charlton Down ..read more