Fungi on a fallen branch near Burrator reservoir, #Dartmoor, #Devon yesterday. #photography #autumn

Stream at Burrator reservoir today, watch out at the start for when acorns dropping into the water startle me. ☺️, You won’t really see on my images, but today was one of those days when the leaves were constantly falling, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Mostly resident hog out for some water before carrying more leaves into his possible hibernaculum (Google). Might have this one over winter or he may just decide to hibernate somewhere else. #hedgehogs

Footpath near Sampford Spiney taken last week, #Dartmoor. #Devon #photography #landscape

Welcoming October with a foggy Fourwinds, taken a few years ago. The wall is the remains of an old schoolhouse, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #fog

Welcome October, illustrations by Edith Holden Edwardian artist.

Farewell September, pictures taken this month, clockwise from top left, ponies, Whitchurch Down, Cox tor view, sheep and rain, near pew tor, rainbow and hawthorn, Combestone tor, hawthorn tree near Whitchurch down, footpath near Sampford Spiney. #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #landscape

Love this video from last night .. because you can see me in my kitchen. Had no idea hog was out there of course at that time. #hedgehogs

Oak leaf (turkey oak ?) last week on a mossy wall near Sampford Spiney one of my favourites from last week. Love the detail. #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #leaf #moss

Note to able bodied people, can you stop screaming at the top of your voice to ‘get outside’… feeding into my feed laying here legs like lead l, my wheelchairs too far away, have a thought for the deeply unwell. Being unwell is a not a moral failing it’s just bad luck.

Sheep and oak, Huckworthy common, #Dartmoor, #Devon last week. #photography #landscape

This is delicious, recipe from Good housekeeping magazine, left out walnuts and pasta for lower calories, and used non alcoholic wine as don’t drink. My carer just cooked it. ❤️🍁

River Plym at Shaugh bridge last April. #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Violet Hunt was a fascinating, complicated woman who lived in the thick of the major art and feminist movements of her day. I'm very glad to see this new British Library edition of her supernatural stories. Naomi Booth has a good piece on Hunt and her times here: newwritingnorth.com/wp-content/u...

Pictures taken this week near Sampford Spiney and Whitchurch Down, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #landscape

Sloes and hawthorn berries in the background, Huckworthy common on Thursday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #berries

View of Cox Tor, from Whitchurch Down, #Dartmoor, #Devon on Thursday. #photography

The hedgehogs are getting huge ready for hibernation eating a bowl of cat biscuits a night each…they survived the drought thanks to bowls of water I put down. #hedgehogs

The Hove Amber Cup. A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light! 🤩 Carved from a single block of Baltic amber some 3,500 years ago! Found in 1856, inside Hove Barrow, a large burial mound in Sussex. Brighton Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Oak leaf on a mossy wall yesterday, near Sampford Spiney, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #moss #Autumn

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost. ~E.M. Forster art by John Atkinson Grimshaw #PhantomsFriday #bookchatweekly

Landscape near Sampford Spiney yesterday with Sharpitor on the moorland horizon, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #landscape #september

Footpath near Sampford Spiney today, new to me, always like finding a new path, #Dartmoor, #Devon #landscape #nature #path #odology #moss

Last year someone messaged me to ask me why I donate my calendar money to a food bank… I didn’t answer. You must need the money they said. Would they have asked an abled bodied person ? Maybe, maybe not. so why do I ? Well because I can the question should be why wouldn’t I ?

Rain coming in near Pew Tor last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. The lump on the right horizon is Brentor church. #landscape #photography

Brentor church in the fog a few Autumns ago #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #Autumn #fog

I came across a word I hadn’t heard of recently, ‘odology’ is the ancient study of paths or roads. Here are four Autumnal roads and paths, Lane near Brentor church, footpath near Tavistock, lane near Creason woods, Tavistock’s old railway cycle path, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

Stream near Whitchurch Down on Sunday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Low rainbow over Whitchurch Down last week with Cox tor in the background, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #nature #landscape

Evergreens at Bellever Forest last February #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #forest

A Victorian ghost story set in the Autumn equinox, Pallinghurst barrow by Grant Allen First published in the Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1892. Link to story and original illustrations #Victorian www.luminist.org/archives/all... #Victorian #ghoststories

Steve brought me chips up from the hut in the park I’m too unwell to go there very often. Look at his autumnal attire. 🔥🍁

Happy Autumn Equinox and spring equinox for the southern hemisphere… it’s the start of Autumn and in a few days the day and night will be of equal length. Photos,Tavistock in mist, rainbow and hawthorn at Combestone tor, Fourwinds, hawthorn berries #Dartmoor #Devon #landscape #nature #autumnequinox

Pictures taken this week near Pew tor and Whitchurch Down, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

The stream in the old railway bridge, water runs down the sides of this bridge along Tavistock’s old railway line cycle . All the path is wheelchair accessible, so no getting to a certain point and looking wistfully over an inaccessible gate 🤣. Taken last Thursday. #Devon #autumn #photography

Oaks near Pew Tor this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #oaks

Gate and birches near Pew Tor, #Dartmoor, #Devon on Monday. #photography #landscape #gates

Hedgehog yawn.. yes it did do a massive poo on the doorstep…

Grimstone and Sortridge leat (man made stream) and pew tor on Monday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

Thanks for all the calendar votes, I chose this one of the road from Bellever to Postbridge. Calendars will be £16 each including p and p within UK. USA orders available again. I’ll post a Link to my Etsy and other ways to pay when I receive them in a couple of weeks, 🙂 #Devon #Dartmoor

Ponies and faint rainbow, Whitchurch Down this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #ponies

Misty evergreens and moss in the mist, near Sheepstor, last April, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #mist #photography #moss

A bit autumnal along Tavistock’s old railway line this evening . #Devon #photography

Sheep near Whitchurch Down this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #nature #sheep #landscape

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Goodnight. 🖼️ Colin Blanchard

Brentor church last Autumn, #Dartmoor #Devon #landscape #nature #photography

Stream and bridge at Moortown on Monday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #landscape #stream

It’s time to choose my November image for my 2026 #Dartmoor calendar, all profits to Tavistock foodbank. Last one I always choose December 🙂. November Dart at Bellever Oaks near Sheepstor Pony near Burrator (no ponies yet) Which one ? Comment to vote 🙂. #Devon #photography