dead Barbie!

I took this picture yesterday on my walk beside the river Teign and spotted this long lost drowned Barbie doll hung up on the barbed wire, it has been washed downstream during the recent floods and makes a really strange image.

Porth Joke, Cornwall

A day down in Cornwall and a walk around the coast at West Pentire on Sunday. There were huge waves stretching the whole width of the bay. I have never seen the sea like this before, it is usually a beautiful blue in Cornwall but was a strange milky grey. We watched Seals bobbing in the foam down below us and wondered how they managed to get any rest as all their usual hauling out spots were battered by the waves even at low tide!

Natures Patterns

This is the water running down from Meldon reservoir here on Dartmoor, a beautiful natural pettern!

OTTER

This is my latest black and white watercolour, the writing around it reads....As you slip away silently
A ripple of bubbles A watery essence, A treasured memory.
I have been lucky to have seen three Otters in the wild and a thrilling experience and most certainly a treasured memory!

Dartmoor Sunset

After all the wet weather we have been having it was nice to see a sunset on my walk below castle Drogo, this shows Kestor on Dartmoor and was taken at about 5pm.

BADGERS

This is my most recent painting, a watercolour prompted by my sadness at the recent Badger cull. The poem I have written around it reads.   Black and white as day and night
                                                Loved and hated
                                                Protected and bated
                                                An innocent participant
                                                In a futile experiment
Brian May is doing a wonderful job of trying to stop this cruel cull and vaxinate instead do have a look at his website "Save Me" here is a link http://www.save-me.org.uk/

Christmas floods!

I have only just got my broadband back after the pre Christmas floods and terrible winds. Chagford was cut off with the roads awash and the sign to the village blown down! This picture is of the Mill End Hotel, you can see the statue which usually stands in the garden overlooking the river!