Mossy wall and oaks, at Burrator reservoir this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #moss #landscape

Old oak at Higher Meavy bridge this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #oak #photography

Day 24 of my ‘getting through January vintage floral plates from books’, illustrations from Wild flowers of the British isles Isobel Adams 1904 #botanical-illustration. I feel very lucky to own a volume of this book with beautiful paintings. Extra images today because the weathers been so awful.

Colour version of twisty willows near Norsworthy bridge. I love the spirals in the branches, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #moss

I follow this linguist chap on YouTube . Fascinating videos on how English evolves and would have sounded. I started to recognise words about 1000AD Emphasises (to me), how mysterious history is, a different country and a different world. youtu.be/842OX2_vCic?si

Day 23 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’. Lapageria rosea, Chilean bellflower from Thompsons gardener’s assistant 1900s . #books #botanicalillustration #Edwardian

Snowdrops at Meavy yesterday. The oak (left), estimated to be 900 years old is older than the medieval church, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #oaks #photography www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/u...

An extra post, it occurred to me last night, I don’t post any black and white images I learnt photography in the 1990s I learnt using 35mm black and white film. I processed my first film and printed my first images at a course at Norwich arts centre in 1990.

Day 22 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’. Wild flowers how to see and gather them 1860 . #books #botanicalillustration #Victorian

Norsworthy bridge today at Burrator reservoir, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Day 21 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’. BRITISH WILD FLOWERS IN THEIR NATURAL HAUNTS 1909. This book has a tracing paper overlay so you can ID the plants from that. . #book #botanicalillustration

East Dart at Bellever. Couple of Februarys ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape #nature

Day 20 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books. Haunts of wild flowers Annie Pratt 1892. #book #botanical illustration

Little signs of hope in a #Devon verge today, always love seeing the snowdrops flowers, near Tavistock today #photography #snowdrops

My Aunt b1942 had a German penpal an attempt by the governments to make connections after ww2. She came to Essex and my aunt went to Germany. On the Eesex visit my Gran made the young woman a dress.

Collybrook stream at Peter Tavy coombe, #Dartmoor, #Devon last week. #photography

Day 19 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books. Four blue flower plates for #bluemonday Wild flowers of the British isles Common wayside flowers 1863 The Oxford book of wild flowers 1960 Wayside and woodland blossoms 1900s #botanicalillustration #books

Pictures taken this week near Peter Tavy, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape #moss

Any fellow person selling stuff to the states know what to do now ? Photos and books excluded from tariffs…. I Only sell for charity now but even after tariffs were sorted last autumn I only sold two calendars to USA .

Day 18 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books. Two plates from ‘Our country’s flowers and how to to know them 1880s’. #botanicalillustration #books First wrote day 178, god January realise is lasting ages this year 🤣.

View near Peter Tavy this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Day 17 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books. This one is much later in date , 1980, but it’s so gorgeous I had to include it, from Flowers of the countryside Majorie Blamey 1980. #botanicalillustration #books

Oak and Devonport leat, Burrator reservoir, a couple of Februarys ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #fog #moss

Mossy hazel (or willow) at Peter Tavy Coombe this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #moss

Day 16 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books. Dorothy Perkins rose from Beautiful flowers and how to grow them 1909. The Dorothy Perkins rose was developed in 1901, named for the American nurseryman Charles Perkins’s granddaughter Dorothy.

Wall and moss near Peter Tavy on Monday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape #moss

We interrupt normal programming to bring you recently a recently filmed video by Steve of a kingfisher on Tavistock canal in the park. There have been kingfishers here for years it’s wonderful to see. #kingfishers #birdwatching

Collybrook stream at Peter Tavy Coombe this week, pretty full…., #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #stream #woods

Day 15 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’, . A spring posy from ‘Wild flowers how to see and gather them’ 1860 #botanicalillustration #books

I woke at dawn and heard a pair of tawny owls calling to each other just outside my window. I love those birds.

The moss looks particularly luminous on the moor at this times of year because it’s growing.. new growth looks very green. Wall and hazel at Peter Tavy coombe this week, #Dartmoor. #Devon. #photography #moss

Rain sweeps in behind trees on Monday, near Peter Tavy Coombe, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape

Day 14 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’, I realised that I haven’t included any book covers yet, look at these art nouveau stunners… 1900s. #botanicalillustration #books #artnouveau

Path To Peter Tavy coombe this week, Dartmoor, I thought I’d explain a bit more about how I take many of my pictures. Because of my health I can’t stand or walk for more than a couple of metres at a time so most of my photos are taken near roads.

Low cloud and sun near Peter Tavy yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #moors #photography

Day 13 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’, Haunts of wild flowers Annie Pratt 1892. #botanicalillustration

The Colly Brook stream runs through Peter Tavy Coombe today after rainfall, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Lane at Burrator a couple of February’s ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon, #photography #landscape #fog

Looking through this recipe book from 1914 and the appalling intro 🤣 the irony is women would very soon be coming out of the kitchen and making munitions , becoming policewomen, rescuing people from bomb damaged buildings. Of course a sizeable number of women were already working. #ww1 #history

Day 12 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’, ‘The illustrated dictionary of gardening 1901’, hellebore illustrated plate . #botanicalillustration

Pictures taken this week between the snow, and storm, Holloway and well at Middlemoor, Robin in my garden, Tavistock’s old railway line in light snow, West #Devon and #Dartmoor. #photography

Day 11 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books’, ‘The illustrated dictionary of gardening 1901’, narcissi illustrated frontispiece. #botanicalillustration

Two young growing hogs still feeding..scaring cats (not mine ) 🙂.

@mythicalbritain.bsky.social see my latest Gawain reference post. Lovely quote but not sure it’s authentic? 🙂.

Into a dark wood, wonderfully wild. High hills all around, below a grove of oaks, Huge and hoary, more than a hundred Hazel and hawthorn were tangled together there, And everywhere rough mounds of hairy moss.. Modern translation, From Gawain and the green Knight, #photography #nature #moss

Day 10 of my ‘getting through January vintage floral plates from books’, ‘Wild flowers how to see and gather them, 1860’. #botanicalillustration

Old drinking well at Middlemoor, Whitchurch Down, this week, people have commented before that they remember using it in the mid 20th century whilst living in the nearby cottages, before mains water was piped here. Great to have that social history input, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape

Footpath near Sheepstor last April, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography