A stroll and a sketch near my beautiful home. I am trying to build up the good habit of keeping a sketchbook in my little bag so that when I take a breather on a walk I can do a sketch. Here I am at between Foss Quay and Southdown, the beach accessible at low tide only. The woods are in all their summer glory! Also a favourite spot of mine for gathering pottery fragments and other interesting treasure.

A sketch and stroll to Stannon Stone circle, Bodmin Moor Stannon is rich area for lumps, bumps and possible prehistoric archaeology. It does make me wonder what could have on the moorland that has now been quarried away. The exciting spot on this trip however was the sun-basking adder (twice!) . It always feels a privilege to be able to observe wildlife in their natural environments. About forty stones are standing in a 43 metre by 39 metre irregular circle. There is pronounc

Sketching at Spinster’s rock Neolithic chamber tomb, North east Dartmoor , OS Map Ref SX700908 Taking the scenic route home across – skirting the eastern edge of Dartmoor so we could pick up the road across the moors, heading towards Princetown. I noticed on the map ‘Spinsters Rock, burial chamber’. A quick detour was required. Spinster’s rock is a Neolithic dolmen- a rather impressive one. However, in 1862 it was reconstructed following a collapse in storm – and it seems a n

Sketching with the skylarks at Trippet Stone circle, near Blisland, Bodmin moors. Starting further south, just north of the A30 the vegetation change in the shallow valley suggested a boggy area. We did not stray down into the rough sedges but some moorland cows confirmed this, ankle deep in a muddy pool. By the time this water course reaches the area of the Trippet stones, it has coalesced into a stream and dropped into a small steep valley that separating the common from t