Oddities Observed On Outings #3 Tiny Snowman

Cute, isn’t it? This tiny snowman was placed atop an old railway sign that still exists alongside a path that now runs along the space once taken up by the railway lines. I was taken with the patience that must have been present in the creator to make such a small, delicate figure out of …

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#ScenicSaturday 9th March 2024: 

Flamborough Head. This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo depicts a calm day on a beach under the chalk cliffs on the northeastern shore of the North Sea at Flamborough, just north of Bridlington in East …

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#ScenicSaturday 2nd March 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Recent months have seen me featuring only photographs taken in that specific month, though not necessarily the current year. I think, with the UK entering meteorological spring on 1st March, I’ll include …

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Oddities Observed On Outings #2: Who Put Holes in that Rock?

This is the second in a proposed series on peculiarities I’ve encountered when walking. I originally intended these posts to appear only on Medium, but that’s a platform where most readers subscribe with a small annual fee for the opportunity to read from a vast collection of posts covering an enormous range of interests. It …

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#ScenicSaturday 24th February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo depicts a stretch of the beautiful River Wye, which forms a boundary along part of its length between England and Wales. Taken from the English side, it shows a local brook …

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#ScenicSaturday 17th February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo shows sunlight fanning through the faint February mist in a place we look on as our ‘magical’ forest in the Forest of Dean. The spruce and pines here form such …

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Oddities Observed On Outings #1

I posted a piece about this on Medium, a platform used by multiple writers. Addendum, posted today, 27th February 2024: Having had some feedback, it seems sensible for me to post any future pieces I place on Medium to this site as well. Different audience with different links. And not everyone wants to pay to …

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#ScenicSaturday 10th February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo is from a favourite walk in the Forest of Dean. The shot was taken at the top of a steep rise, with a further, less steep climb to follow. The …

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#ScenicSaturday 3rd February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean. Tall trees convey a sense of wonder, a feeling of permanence, peace, and tranquillity. We wonder what they might tell us if only we could …

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#ScenicSaturday 27th January 2024

My photos in this continuing series depict our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean and shows January sunlight filtering through the tall pines and firs of a plantation on a slope. We have seen buzzards, deer, …

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#ScenicSaturday 20th January 2024

My photos in this continuing series depict our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is from a walk in the Forest of Dean. The track leads from the old Myristock Bridge along a fairly level route past the secluded car park at …

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#ScenicSaturday 13th January 2024

My photos in this continuing set of series depict our beautiful world in the hope of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness.Today’s photo is a seasonal shot from the Forest of Dean, mist clouding the spaces between the trees on a track that curves by a functioning …

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#ScenicSaturday 6th January 2024

My photos in this continuing set of series depict our beautiful world in the hope of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness.Today’s photo is a winter shot of the River Wye that begins in Wales and runs through a valley, part of which is designated an Area …

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#ScenicSaturday 30th December 2023

Worm's Head My photos in these continuing series show our beautiful world with the aim of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness.I normally post pictures taken in the month concerned in each cycle, but I’m excluding December as it can be rather dull here in the UK. …

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#ScenicSaturday 23rd December 2023

Aysgill Force My photos in these continuing series show our beautiful world with the aim of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness.I normally post pictures taken in the month concerned in each cycle, but I’m excluding December as it can be rather dull here in the UK. …

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