Category: David

The Merry Maidens stone circle with the three nearby tall standing stones, the Fiddlers, are in what most be the most accessible of the many remaining prehistoric landscapes in the Penwith peninsula at the tip of Cornwall, being right by the main B-road from Penzance to Lands End. But it can still be a quiet area to visit.

This series includes views not only of the circle itself, formed of low granite stones, and of the Fiddlers. There is also another nearby tall standing stone, now incorporated into a field hedge. Although it is not marked as an antiquity on the OS map, it looks very much like one. So do two other stones, now used as the gateposts leading from the road to the farm nearest the circle.

The set also includes pictures of the partially-open prehistoric chambered tomb, on the verge of the road a quarter mile or so from the circle.

St Michael’s Mount makes an impressive sight wherever it is visible from. Views here from different pointa around Mount Bay: the nearest point on the mainland at Marazion, as well as Penzance, Mousehole and from the on / off island itself.

Sea pink, is, as the name implies, a coastal plant. These, with the last of the pink flowers just about to begin to develop theire seeds, were on Orcombe Point at the westerly end of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

Young magpie in a tree. The bird seemed to be carefully watching visitors to Morrab Garden as a potential source of food rather than as a possible threat.

A selection of flowers noticed on a brief visit to Morrab Garden – just a couple of minutes walk from the sea front at Penzance, a peaceful and pleasant public space.

Waterlilies in flower. The Water Hawthorn, first in the series) was on a small pool in the garden of the Barbara Hepwork Museum, St Ives. The others in the Morrab Garden, Penzance.