Showing posts with label dartmoor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dartmoor. Show all posts

Monday, 9 April 2012

Easter bank holiday weekend












 I. This weekend has consisted of lots of walking and also eating a large amount of bad stuff (tasted nice though), so hopefully the exercise cancels it out! Made an cake for my mum's birthday that contained an epic amount of raspberry cream filling, and got lots of chocolate bunnies for Easter.

II. Went up on Dartmoor in the sun to go letterboxing and to climb a tor. Saw some amazing views but the clouds meant that any pictures didn't really come out properly.

III. Also went to Dunster Castle in Somerset on the Sunday, it was a lovely day and such a beautiful place with a very pretty village, also saw an adorable french bulldog with gorgeous little ears like a bat haha. Had quite a spooky experience on a staircase inside the castle, but felt nothing in the rooms where the majority of the ghostly sightings are meant to take place- typical. We came down the back staircase and it was freezing, like walking into a fridge, but only I felt it, my parents said it was warm. The feeling also followed me until the next room, not a pleasant experience, but I really want to go back on a quieter day and see if anything else happens. There was also an exhibition about the castle ghosts, and people had sent in pictures of the castle where things had appeared which weren't there when they were taken- it was so interesting. I looked at my pictures when I got home but there wasn't anything weird in them sadly. 

IIII. Today is so wet and horrible I don't really feel like doing much except drinking lots of tea by the fire and consuming more chocolate, I have lots of vanilla buttercream frosting left over from cake making, so I might make some butterfly cakes this afternoon. Diet is slipping I fear...thank god Easter is once a year!

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Monday, 26 December 2011

boxing day trudge

 I seem to have developed an obsession with photographing fungi/mushrooms, they're fascinating.


 These pictures were taken on Christmas morning and on Boxing day- very gloomy weather.


 This heron didn't seem to mind us staring at him, or the two dogs chasing each other below his branch.

 Edge of Dartmoor.


 I would love to find out who these initials belong to and if they are still together.


 When it comes to macro, my camera does it well.


This is a little fairy door drawn onto a tree near our house, it's become a feature we always visit when walking in the woods, I really wanted to photograph this in the snow, maybe in the spring.