Month: March 2009
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Early hawthorn leaves
Common Hawthorn – Crataegus monogyna, at Dawlish Warren
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Turnstones
Turnstones, Arenaria interpres, off the Devon coast near Dawlish
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Foreign Land
‘Whenever George thought of the sea, it seemed to him a kindly place mainly because he imagined himself floating away on it leaving his unbuoyant father stranded on the beach. On summer holidays, first in Dawlish, then in Ilfracombe, Mr Grey led his family to this dangerous element like Moses going at the head of…
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Sun god
On Sunday morning I couldn’t sleep – I got up to watch the sunrise and decided to go for a walk after breakfast. I left the house before 9 o’clock and went very quietly down to the park. Tom told me on Friday that a buzzard roosts in the tree on the island – I’ve…
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Fungi
Snow last night but bright sunshine by 11 am and not too cold for a walk. In Oaklands Wood the bluebell leaves are pushing through and the ramsons are already well up and smelling strongly. Oyster mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus
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Little red flames
Hazel catkins (Corylus avellana) 5 March 2009 All rights reserved * * * * * She was a strange figure in the class-room, wearing a large, old cloak of greenish cloth, on which was a raised pattern of dull gold. The high collar, and the inside of the cloak, was lined with dark fur. Beneath…
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Powell’s of Whitefriars
Tilework by Powell’s of Whitefriars, St Gregory the Great, Dawlish. More pictures and information to be added soon…