some old trees

27th Feb 2020, Hauxley, 10:30am

This tree is around 10,000 years old and it grew just after the ice age on a land surface which is now Hauxley beach. The preservation is remarkable.

There are quite a few trunks from the old forest on Druridge Bay and around Hauxley but these ones have been recently uncovered by very high tides. It's easy to imagine the forest stretching down into a valley with Coquet Island rising as a hill sticking above the trees.

too early too soon

26th Feb 2020, Alnmouth, 7am

Sunrise is getting close to 7am now and soon it'll be a lot more effort to get up in time!

bbc

25th Feb 2020, Bamburgh, 9am

Here for a quick walk with Daisy before a guided walk with HPB guests.

Gorgeous, bright but chilly winter day.

first snows of winter

24th Feb 2020, Longhorsley, 7:30am

The first properly snowy morning of the winter

different view

23rd Feb 2020, Embleton Bay, 2pm

I spotted this different view worth a photograph from up on top of the dunes while the sea rolled in high up the beach at a spring tide.

I could have photographed every few seconds and captured a different pattern in the water every time.

As it was I took these 3 shots and couldn't choose between them so I decided they work quite well as a triptych.

 Meanwhile Daisy watched over the golf course with the chilly wind in her fur...

exploring

21st Feb 2020, nr Alnwick, 8am

Away from the beach and down to the woods to get out of the incessant wind.

It was good to explore and I managed to find my way to the old railway viaduct.

long shadows, longdog

20th Feb 2020, Alnmouth, 4pm

Long shadows of the late afternoon sun