Ray's Photos

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Part Three
continuing. We've driven out to East Quantoxhead, and are going to walk down to some of my favourite coast


Amber Waves


Meadow Sweet


Materials


Village Pond


Go Figure


Golden


Blue Horizon

Next time: Rock Show!

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A series from an afternoon in mid-July at the haven of geological wonders that is East Quantoxhead, where the Quantocks tumble into the Bristol Channel.


Layers


Westward


Eastward


Upward


Rock Jenga


Denizen
Took this with a telephoto because I couldn't work out what the bird was. I still can't

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Part Two


Contractual Obligation I


Contractual Obligation II


Gone Fishing


Balance


Smoothe


Wales Across the Water

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Part Three


Con Trail


The Green Tractor


Erosion


Paddling


Going Up


Junction with Ammonite Sigil


Towards Kilve


Parting the Waves

Back when I can

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Still in July this year.


Sandwich


Over the Garden Gate
East Quantoxhead


Gunnera
Likewise

Rather than go home to a building site, decided to get a hotel room at the big village/small town of Williton, just inland. These from an evening walk


Implement Agents
Wonderful agricultural/hardware store


Tumbling


Agnus Dei


Cottage Garden

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Part Two
Next morning, back to base


Carpets Come


Red Room


Feast
Treating myself to a sit-down meal at the Gurkha 3 in Station Road. It was marvelous:veg dhansak, mushroom rice, 'banta' (wonderful Nepalese aubergine dish)


Crucible/Molten Sky


Raised Bed
Some bedding plants and a few dahlias brought over in the car

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Part Three
Brief return to Sandford, and what turned out to be a last walk on the Cardiac Hill/Shaky Bridge/Upton Hellions route with His Scrapness


Overgrown
The style at the bottom of Cardiac Hill


Trucking


Thistly


Northlake


Mill Garden






Recession. Goodbye to the Creedy Widger

Next time, more of Sandford, the move begins at last

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The long goodbye continues in the last third of July.


Downhill All the Way


When Camo Colouring Doesn't Work


Comma


Cap'n


Hulk Among the Lupins


Visiting the Howards


Hocks


Whites

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Part Two


Rosa Mundi


Coming Home


Happiness


The Summer Game...
Devon vs Wilts in a Minor Counties thriller at Sandford


Quack


Cob


Off-Message

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Part Three
Last days of the garden before the big move of plants on 24 July


Front


Once Was Glade








The Usual Suspects
All lined up and waiting to load


Tucked Away


Loading the Fig
Hampered by camera being on wrong setting, and a bit of rain.

Next Time, new home for the plants, and for us

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24 July and aftermath in Taunton.






Waiting


Arrival


Side Garden


Settling In

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Part Two

Inspecting the Troops


Summer Bedding


New View


From Above


Little Limes

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Part Three
Back in Devon for a bit


The Count


The No-Account


One Hock


From HK to SF


Ape and Ogress


Pose

Next time, the last of July and on into August. Woot

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Begin today with the last of July in Taunton. We moved the furniture (most of it) on 30 July


The Southern Aspect


Agapanthus


First Fruits


Moved


Path


Arch
Longrun Meadow

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Part Two


Kids Today...
When I were a bairn, we had a ten foot slide, four swings and a seesaw on tarmac, and we were grateful...
Victoria Park, Taunton


Annuals and Dahlias
Back home


In the Night Garden


Getting Figgy With It


Lily Not Pink


Blues in the Night

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Part Three

The first week of August was horrible, most of it spent in Sandford, or traveling to and from it. The experience destroyed my sense of belonging to that place utterly. I haven't been back, and at the moment feel I never will, although things always change.


Look Out, There's a Monster Coming


"I'm GOIng IN!"


Discretion the Better Part of Valour
All three last visit to Creedy Beech


Furlongs


Iconic

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ooops

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and more oopsy

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Part Four
Continuing in Sandford


Playing Possum
Elvis is confused


The Natural Disorder Restored
With extra Kizzy


On the Move




Goodbye to All That

Next time, in Taunton to stay

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August 9, back in Somerset, getting used to having just one residence again.


The French Weir
One thing that Taunton has in abundance are waterways: not just the Tone and its tributaries, but canals also. The French Weir is the beginning of the Taunton Navigation.


Checking the Depth
It's a damn sight deeper than the Creedy


Paddling


Chains


Blue and White
Hortense finds a new home in the bedroom


Heritage
A hoarding round a development site has been painted with symbols of Somerset: here it's Glastonbury Tor, and below the Willow Man

Striding Out

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