portslade beach ... i had twenty minutes to spare before my customer opened her shop, so i took a walk here ...

... its fascinating how young gulls learn to fend for themselves in such barren looking spaces

? arenaria interpres ? ... whatever ! in it's search for food, this little bird overturns pebbles which probably weigh more than itself

after the high tides and storms, the upper shelf of the beach is littered with "stuff"

how many events and changes formed this pebble ?

 

i go cross-eyed trying to think how mud turns into rock and then becomes a pebble

 

it's anorak time on the bluebell line (1)

 

it's anorak time on the bluebell line (2)

 

it's anorak time on the bluebell line (3)

 

it's anorak time on the bluebell line (4)

 

it's anorak time on the bluebell line (5)

 

it's anorak time on the bluebell line (6)

giving the driver the green flag on the bluebell line

 

an original idea which never caught on ...

 

marketing exemplar at the co-op in edenbridge

 

ghillies bar beside the thames at putney

 

high tide on the thames at putney

 

it seems more like may than october on putney heath, next year's buds are swelling on the oak trees ...

 

... and some of the conker trees think it is spring already ...

and the mass of fresh nettles are stinging my ankles through my trousers

 

to the western docks at southampton ...

 

... through the steel jungle of the container port ...

 

... to leave that old bmw in safe hands until it is shipped back to spain

the avoncliffe aqueduct carries the kennet and avon canal across the river avon about a mile downstream from bradford-on-avon

 

there are masons' marks everywhere on the avoncliffe aqueduct

 

the ivy navigating the avoncliffe aqueduct ... designer dog in prow