Woodland pond.

Memories of warmer weather in Somerset.

A bridge.

Nikon F4, Nikkor 43-86 Ai f3.5 lens (soft focus filter) and Ilford FP4 Plus.

Trip, trap, trip, trap! went the bridge
Who’s that tripping over my bridge? roared the troll
Oh, it is only I, the tiniest Billy Goat Gruff

A country walk.

A country walk with Nikon F4, Nikkor 43-86 Ai f3.5 lens and Ilford FP4 Plus.

The Grwyne Fawr river – Wales No3.

The Grwyne Fawr river Wales No3.

The Grwyne Fawr river – Wales No2.

The Grwyne Fawr river Wales No2

The Grwyne Fawr river – Wales.

The Grwyne Fawr: a river in the Brecon Beacons National Park South Wales.

A very enjoyable day trip on a nice sunny day (rare this last few months) while visiting my Daughter in Somerset.
We visited deepest darkest Wales and decided some exploring near Abergavenny was in order. There was an ulterior motive; a search for a house I lived in for a short time when knee high to a Grasshopper.
I had a memory of a river, Dam and heading away from Abergavenny, but no names other than it was near a place called Forest Coal Pit. The river was in a valley on the right hand side going towards the dam. Out came the O.S map of the area and after following a few very ! narrow roads, found it and now know the name of the river again – Grwyne Fawr.

Stone wall in trees.

Abandoned stone wall being overcome by trees.

En route – Jebel Shams Oman.

En route – Jebel Shams Oman: from my files.

Woodland path.

Dead Juniper – Jebel Shams Oman.

Dead Juniper tree – Jebel Shams. From my files.

Omani banana tree.

Back to Oman from my files of 2016, even if only as a reminder of what it was like without constant rain.

Siver Birch plantation.

Silver Birch plantation.

Tree & scrubland.

Tree with tussock grass: Somerset.

Catkins.

Catkins – diffused & brown toned.

Winter tree No2 – Somerset.

I cheated with this one, flipped it horizontally because I preferred the big tree on the left & the road curving in from the right.

Winter tree – Somerset.

Another winter tree.

It may still look rather cold, but it was not all fog & rain. In fact most of the day was very nice for the time of year.
Not sure exactly where this was, we had been travelling back and fore trying to catch the murmuration of starlings.

Another tree in fog.

My obsession with trees & fog continues – on this walk I managed to drop a lens cap. Could I find it? not a chance, rather annoying because it was the only thing keeping the front of the lens dry in all the fog. At least it was a cheap item to replace (a free one from my daughter 🙂 ) not like the time I lost my Nikon DK-17M magnifying eyepiece from the Nikon F4, that was rather costly.
If you have never tried one of these, I would recommend getting one, especially if using manual focus lenses; it gives a 1.2x magnification, making the viewfinder appear much larger, without causing problems for the dioptre adjustment.

A tree in rising fog.

Tree root with moss.

Nikon Df with 43-86 Ai zoom lens.
Reaching out for other trees: not so strange as it may sound, there is research going on that seems to confirm that trees actually do communicate with each other.
See this link from the Smithsonian: Do Trees Talk to Each Other?

Tree Stump & moss No2.

Tree Stump & moss.

Nikon Df with Nikkor 35-70 Ai f3.5 zoom lens. This lens dates from the early 1970’s and takes 72mm filters – changed to 62mm when the Ais version was released and continued in production until 1987. My lens has ones of those nice metal screw in lens caps, much nicer that the now ubiquitous plastic things.