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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 02 Jun 2021, 23:25

Part 4

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Freefall

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Lurking

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Stirring

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Number One Dog at Number Two Pond

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Cascade

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Another Kill

Next time, a trip to the coast
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby kath » 03 Jun 2021, 01:41

Rayge wrote:Part Four

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Bayou Bobo



oh. ohhhhh oh oh. LOVE.

like that aint after my own heart.

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 17 Jun 2021, 20:17

Still struggling to get through April, with the knowledge that I have taken getting on for 1,000 photos since then: combination of new camera, regular trips out into Somerset and Devon countryside and my garden going into overdrive.
Today, starting with 19 April and a trip north to East Quantoxhead, where the foothills of the Quantock Hills dip down into the Bristol Channel

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On the Rise
Inland from the coastal path

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Bucket and Spade Not Required
Pebble beach in Excelsis

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Incoming

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The Duck House
East Quantoxhead Village pond

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The Big House: Garden

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Pantiles

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Postby Rayge » 17 Jun 2021, 20:18

Part Two
Back to Taunton
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Down on the Jetty

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Lock Gates

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Zig-Zag Wanderer

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Stripes

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Heat

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Flaming

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Postby Rayge » 17 Jun 2021, 20:19

Part Three

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Cherry Blossom

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Dog Magnet
Lovely mud

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The Way Through the Woods

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Tones

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Kingston St Mary
Another walk, inland this time, around a village a few miles north of Taunton

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Red Dirt Country

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Postby Rayge » 17 Jun 2021, 20:20

Part 4

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Patches

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Bench Ends
16th-century woodwork (dated 1522 on another bench end) in St Mary's church

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Tendrils

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Ivy

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Vault

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Tower

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Gargoyles

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Postby Rayge » 17 Jun 2021, 20:21

Part 5
Getting ourselves back to the Garden

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Black Parrot

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Mutant
This is a tulip

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Statement

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Brunnera

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Apple Bossom

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Postby Rayge » 17 Jun 2021, 20:22

Part Six
Out and About again

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Paddle

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Me Too

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Weave

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Wellsprings Cottage

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Canal

That takes us to 25 April. Hope to get this month done soon, but garden-Euros-life-so busy
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 20 Jun 2021, 21:08

So let's get April done, starting with the usual suspect in Taunton

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Intrepid
Scrap takes on Firepool Weir

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Better Part of Valour
Decides against getting that particular stick

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There's Treasure Everywhere

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the Fleet's In

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Failed Rainbow

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Blossom Time
The cherries in the garden giving it plenty

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Postby Rayge » 20 Jun 2021, 21:09

Part Two
Away from Taunton on a jolly - first stop, Glastonbury to grab some water from the chalybeate spring, then climb the Tor

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The Way Down

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Sniff Check

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Mendip View

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Down Town
Which is where we headed next

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Funky Lallydrags

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The Glasto Experience
All kinds of hippietat shops with punny names

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Postby Rayge » 20 Jun 2021, 21:11

Part Three
From there to Wells...

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Marketplace
Film fans may recognize locations from Hot Fuzz

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Moat
Around the Bishop's Palace

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Bishop's Gardens

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Eastern Elevation
The scaffolding is from restoration work being carried out by a firm run by an old friend - and former GF of my pal Billy - Sally Strachey.

Onward to Brean Sands for some serious beaching
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Stripes

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South to the Quantocks

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Postby Rayge » 20 Jun 2021, 21:12

Part Four
Same place
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Two Riders Were Approaching

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Riding By

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ILooking for Lugworms

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On the Horizon
The building site on the horizon is Sizewell B nuclear power station

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Groyne Injury

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Intersecting Planes

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Postby Rayge » 20 Jun 2021, 21:13

Part Five
Back in Taunton
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The Promised Land
Joyful dog pix - I got ’em

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The Far Shore

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Acers

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Close to Home
The egret turns up in the grounds of Taunton School, just 1oo yeards away from my house.
That's it for April: tme to get started on May
It has been a cold spring, and it's still pretty chilly as May opens, with all the plants developing two or three weeks later than usual

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Commmunity Orchard

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Swamp Thing

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Postby Rayge » 20 Jun 2021, 21:17

Part 6

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Chomp Thing

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Pomp Thing

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Sluice

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Slosh

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Demolition

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Fall

Next time, Exmoor and more
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Jul 2021, 19:18

More images from the beginning of May

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Hey, Good Lurking!

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Up Top
On Dunkery Beacon, highest point on Exmoor

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Huntsman

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Bleak
Bit of a challenge, Exmoor. Miles and miles of fuck all, basically

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Tadders
Back home, pollywogs in the pond

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Splashdown

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Postby Rayge » 01 Jul 2021, 19:20

Part Two

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Streamrunner
Egret in motion

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Smell the Folding Money
Taunton's version of Millionaire's Row

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Strolling

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Snakes and Maidenhair

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ComingAlong
Garden beginning to take shape. Pretty soon all will explode into life and colour (aprt from Him, natch) in, if you will pardon a lapse into horticultural jargon, The Great Kablooey

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Yay! Muck!
A family outing to Blue Anchor Bay on the North Somerset Coast

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Postby Rayge » 01 Jul 2021, 19:21

Part 3

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Desolation

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Dumping the Shark
One of many dead dogfish stranded by the outging tides

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Flicking the Vs

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Sculpture Trail

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Henge

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Plea

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Postby Rayge » 01 Jul 2021, 19:23

Part 4

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Avenue

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Sparkle

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Poodle

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Palette

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Explore

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Outlet

And if you thought that was a lot of mud, sticks and stones, barely one in six of the photos taken that morning...

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Postby Rayge » 01 Jul 2021, 19:24

Part 5
Home again

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Firebird
My favourite broom does its two weeks a year thing

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Flamers
The tulips lasted well into June

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Noble Noballs
What a poser

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Downpour
A cold wet May. The garden path becomes a linear lake.

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Garland

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Down in the Valley
This week's day out is on the Quantocks, from Triscombe Stone to Great Hill

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Jul 2021, 19:25

Part 6

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Long Shot

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High and Wide

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Syncopation

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Treelines

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Denizens
Longhorns on Great Hill

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Come Down and Die Like a Rat
Squirrel spotted on one of the trees along the Drove Road

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Close Encounter

More from this walk, and later in May, next time
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