David

This is a medieval stone cross a long way outside the village on a road which just leads past a few isolated houses before circling back to the village. Noone really knows why it’s there. It looks more like a Cornish roadside cross than anything else.

These blackberries were showing the colours of every stage in the ripening process: from greens, through reds to the rich blue-black.

This plant was growing by a roadside near Lower Penn.

These haws looked like they were already completely ripe – pictured a week ago.

This spider’s web was very obvious when the sun caught it against a shadowed background.

This one was less noticeable. It stretched across a rabbit hole, presumably currently unoccupied. It was in a deep shadow, but made more visible because it had caught some sand which had fallen on it.

This clump of ragwort was proving very attractive to insects early in August. A cinnabar moth caterpillar is near to the ragged white butterfly (above) while the hoverfly (below) came along a minute or so later.