Pete Herring

A late Victorian hedge brought to an elegant point on a granite post, sadly now snapped.
Blacktor, Fawymore (Bodmin Moor), #Cornwall

Beautifully written obituary, and a marvellous portrait by Chris Redgrave.

This sky is screeching.
Scores of swifts.
Tiny black specks.
#Cornwall

A sun-dappled seal petroglyph in the Fulford Harbour estuary on Salt Spring Island, Canada.
Made by Saanich people.

At the Saturday Market, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, Canada
June 2025

Book cover image of The Woolwich Rotunda above Historic England and LUP logos in white. To the right is a larger image of the image on the book cover which features a drawing of the Woolwich Rotunda with several men in military dress, a cannon, and a tree in the foreground. The text above this image reads 'Tells the story of a remarkable building, the Woolwich Rotunda, and its unique landscape.'

The Woolwich Rotunda: From waltzes to wargames by @emilyvcole.bsky.social,‬ Sarah Newsome, and Verena McCaig is now available in Historic England's Informed Conservation series. This book highlights the building's innovation, placing the Rotunda in its historical context. bit.ly/HERotunda

Folding of waves, mountains and clouds on the evening ferry back to Salt Spring Island from Crofton.

Starlings have displaced purple martins from their natural nesting places so people build nest boxes for them, as here, on the old ferry terminal at Vesuvius Bay, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Stone clearance heap in a colonialist's 1870s orchard on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

British Columbia

Pencil drawing of a quiet, narrow street lined with medieval and later buildings. Several buildings have overhanging upper floors.

A study in jetties (overhanging upper floors) and window sills used for displaying goods, especially butchers meat, in Shambles, York.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear

Back from visiting parents in Canada.
A colonial boundary style still in use on Salt Spring Island. Meadow against woodland, separated by a split-cedar fence lifted off the ground by stones and held in place by weight and gravity.

A painting of the Chamber Tomb of Pentre Ifan near Newport

A painting the Tolmen of Constantine, Cornwall.

Richard Tongue was committed to recording megaliths (large stones that form historic monuments). Often located in sites not easily accessed, he wanted to increase awareness of those who wouldn't be able to visit them & the importance of recognising the need for preservation & protection.

Bridge across the Bedalder.
From Great Care to Hard Head.
And from Cardinham parish to Warleggan.
It was already there in 1748 when mapped by Thomas Martyn.
And that great white cone is a lot later: the sky tip of the Glynn Valley Clayworks.

White sheep and white lamb with black legs walking on a beach with hills behind

Sheep on the beach #Shetland

Approaching the very fine livestock bridge on the Yelverton - Princetown railway track.
Built to allow grazing cattle, sheep and ponies to cross the line safely.

Into Devon to find Denham Bridge, crossing the Tavy.
The rock carved away to allow the left hand arch to accommodate a fiercer flow.

Godolphin

Roof boss in Bradstone church west Devon, dated 1718.
Apparently depicting the eclipse of 2nd March that year, when c33% of the sun was eclipsed by the moon at c 7.30 in the morning.

A bright flag among the lichened willows.
#Scilly

May means mesembryanthemums.
#Scilly

Dew on dandelions and grass in Great Close in the early morning.

The medieval Moor.
Lazy beds in outfield strips on Rough Tor's lower slopes below us.
Beautifully preserved strip fields on Bronwenelyn (Brown Willy) in the distance.
And the ancient semi-natural grassland supporting summer-time cattle, sheep and mare grazing on Hamatethy Common in between.

Slide scanning again: April 1985.
Two apparently medieval beehive huts made from large slabs of granite, high on the W slopes of Bronwenelyn (Brown Willy), #Cornwall.
Extensive views over rough grazing.
They probably sheltered those tending herds and flocks.

✨The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping – so I put my tilt-shift lens to work... 📸 #throwbackthursday

Land's End

Pencil drawing of a person walking past a high brick wall in front of houses. One of the houses has some timber framing visible with York Minster visible through a collection of tall chimneys.

Number 5 Minster Yard, York. A medieval house with an 18th century storey on top. A bit of York Minster in the background.

@yvbsg.bsky.social #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtYear

Have started the long process of scanning old slides...

1988, the clapper bridge between Brown Willy and Butterstor, Bodmin Moor, #Cornwall.
The earth on the stones is from the passage of cattle, not people.
Rough Tor in the distance, of course.

"Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens."
~ John O'Donohue

The Gathering of Daffodils
🎨 Harold Harvey

Colour photo of a grassy landscape. The sky is pale blue and slightly orange, on the ground the shadows show the rings of a cairn.

The shadows created by the setting sun helping to pick out the outline of one of the cairns on top of Caradon Hill on the edge of Bodmin Moor near St. Cleer. #TombTuesday