Rachel Burch

Two books open at starling and bird paintings

Welcome November, paintings by Edwardian artist Edith Holden.

A foal and horse on moorland

Pony and foal, Whitchurch Down, #Dartmoor this week, #Devon. #landscape #nature #ponies

Thanks ☺️.

A collage of autumnal images

Farewell October, pictures taken this month, #Dartmoor, #Devon.
#photography Clockwise from top left, Fourwinds, bracken at Burrator, Holloway at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, meadow at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, beeches near Brentor, Peter Tavy coombe, middle, Peter Tavy coombe.

Wiki page of Tavistock abbey abbots.

I like doing some local history research and sometimes I do come across some unexpected things … Abbott ‘became a pirate’ wtf ? 🤣

A collage of photos featuring Dartmoor scenes and cothele chapel in the middle

Happy Samhain, this sacred festival has been cheapened into scary thrills and plastic tat. The ancient festival is about illness and death, the ancestors and the spirits that haunt our minds and our land. As we descend to the dark, let us embrace it #dartmoor #devon #halloween #samhain #photography

Yes it’s called merrivale, there’s a stone roe there it’s the original shire.

Moorland granite rocks with tors on the horizon.

View to Staple tors, seen from near Merrivale on Tuesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Autumnal moors and trees And a ridge of beech trees

Autumn landscape near Whitchurch Down this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #Autumn

Stream near Whitchurch Down yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

The foal nearby had blue eyes 🙂.

A close up of a pony’s mane

There’s a pony under there somewhere 🙂, pony, Whitchurch Down yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #pony

A stone wall with beech tree against a blue sky.

Fourwinds today, was lucky to get this before the clouds descended again, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Green moss in a wall crevice

Stonecrop

Miss in a wall

Mosses and stonecrop in #Dartmoor walls, near Peter Tavy last week #photography #landscape #flora

A wall with moors behind

Stone wall near Peter Tavy last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #moors

The Collybrook stream flows through Peter Tavy village last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #village #bridge

Pete Tavy coombe

Mossy hazels

Sheep near Peter Tavy

Big oak trunk on footpath

Pictures taken this week near Peter Tavy #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Peter Tavy coombe last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #nature

Peter Tavy Coombe this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

A stream with overhanging hazels

Stream (collybrook) , Peter Tavy this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #stream #landscape

A grey tabby torty sits expectantly on a wheelchair.

Breakfast time #caturday

Meadow hare linoprint, by my mum, Jo.

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Green moss hangs over a rock

Moss over a rock, it was dripping wet, good to see after all the droughts this year, Peter Tavy Coombe this week, #Dartmoor., #Devon. #photography #moss

A Victorian painting of a tree lined street in Autumn.

Late October by Atkinson Grimshaw 1882.
I love this time of year, the letting go, the colours, the sudden turn into dark.

Lots of water at Peter Tavy coombe yesterday. #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #waterfall

A cat sits on scales on which an envelope is placed

This was Mabel ‘helping’ me weigh the calendars for posting last week … (all sold now).

A big oak trunk along a path

Huge oak bole (trunk) in a footpath at Peter Tavy on Tuesday. Hard to see just how huge the bottom of this tree is ❤️, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #oaktree #oaks #landscape

Sheep along a moorland lane

Sheep walking down the lane near Peter Tavy yesterday, Bodmin moor is on the horizon, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #landscape #photography

A hazel bands over a stream

Peter Tavy coombe yesterday on a blustery showery #Dartmoor Autumn day 🙂, #Devon. #photography

Stream (Collybrook) near Peter Tavy this afternoon, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape