Nature Blog

I visited the Neolithic/Bronze age stone circle complex at Stanton Drew in the Chew Valley near Bristol, arriving an hour before dawn with the new moon rising into the still starry sky. I walked out across a field towards the huge 113 metre diameter stone circle. My wellies crunched through the luminous white, ice-frosted grass…

I arrived on the tors high above the River Dart in the Holne Valley on Dartmoor, just as the pale sun rose shedding a golden light through the misty Autumnal valley. I sat on a large granite boulder and did my daily nature ritual where I honoured the four directions in a clockwise circular motion…