Summer

A much more relaxed blip today. Managed to get all the contact sheets printed last night (getting to bed at one in the morning) and delivered them to school today, where hopefully a few of them will sell.

After dropping the sheets off, I went for a walk. It seems such a long time since I walked down a country lane with the sun beating down. It was a long walk from where I had parked my car to the nature reserve at Warleigh Point. I walked the entire length of the creek and then around the point to where the railway bridge crosses the Tavy.

The landscape opens out onto the River Tamar looking south, with the path running through a sessile oak wood and then as you follow the point around, you start getting views to the north, up the Tamar and then past the confluence where the Tavy joins the Tamar. The view above is across the River Tavy and then across the River Tamar into Cornwall. The village is Halton Quay, and the spit of land in the foreground is the southernmost tip of the Bere Peninsula.

The land is just basking in the sunshine. You can almost hear it sighing with enjoyment as it soaks up the warmth.

After this point the path goes back though younger woodland, past a reed-filled pond and then on to the railway bridge which crosses the Tavy. From here it's about a ten minute walk back to the entrance. I could have parked the car there, but as I hadn't I still had a twenty minute walk back along the lane.

The whole thing took two hours and then it was back home for lunch and a lazy afternoon before getting back to editing photos.