Some old holiday photographs

After unpacking and sorting out some boxes, I came across photographs from a holiday I took in the Pacific Northwest of America. I travelled from San Francisco to Seattle via, several volcanic peaks that form part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Here are some of the photographs from the early part of the holiday. They include views of San Francisco, parts of the Napa Valley, Mount Lassen in North California and Crater Lake in Oregon.

New home, new start.

Since the last time I wrote, I've moved house and for the first time since I've owned property, I'm in a new build.

This is the area where I now live.

I'm loving being in the new place and felt the time had come for a change and moving my life onward. I think I allowed things to stagnate for the last couple of years and now I've made the first significant change to my life since my divorce. Time to move on and start living life to the full again.

Some of my favourite 2015 photographs

Some people, places and reflections of 2015.

New Year's Eve

I probably haven't written or posted here this year as much as I could have done. Now the year is nearly ended and it is time to look forward to 2016 and look back on the achievements of 2015, both personal and professional.

I carried on with what for me is becoming an annual tradition, taking the dog out for a longer than usual walk with my camera in tow too. December here has been one of the warmest and wettest on record and yesterday we were battered by a pretty fierce winter storm.

I took the chance to explore around the Northern Fringes of Topsham and walked towards the Ex Estuary.

Enjoy the photos, and have a very Happy New Year, may all your wishes for 2016 come true.

Walking on the Quay and Reflections

Time is passing, and we are already well into summer.  I haven't posted in a while so thought I'd make amends.

I went walking on the quay today, it was interesting to try and take photographs of the reflections on the water.

Podcasts

Just to let my readers know there are two great podcasts available from the BBC this week.

Two totally different topics but both amazing.

You can download them from the BBC website.

They are the Voices of Summer Gone By, a short history of cricket commentary via the medium of Test Match Special, my favourite way of wasting sunny afternoons in the summer. You can download it here.

The second is called The Mind of a Cyclist, an in depth interview with Sir Bradley Wiggins. Its interesting to find out what makes his mind tick. You can download it here.

Take the time to download these programmes, they are definitely worth a couple of hours of your time.

Visiting Killerton

After a bit of a stormy start yesterday morning, the weather improved and the sun came out. 

I took the chance to go for a walk near Killerton House and the nearby woodland with a friend and our dogs.

It was a beautiful day and I discovered somewhere I hadn't visited before which is always great. It was stunning to see the bluebells had flowered and that the wild garlic was flowering.