If you go down to the woods today…

A tree stump surrounded by ivy at Woods Mill.

UK Bank Holiday Monday on form: it’s tipping it down.

A rainy back garden in Bank Holiday Monday.

Good morning from the South Downs.

A view towards the South Downs, from Lancing College, including the playing films.

Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.

Wild garlic growing in Shoreham.

📷 #mbApr Day 21

The Cairngorms in early 1989.

For day 21 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: mountain, suggested by David, aka @dejus.

A dirt trail meanders through a snowy mountain landscape with scattered vegetation under an overcast sky.

Littlehampton harbour, with gulls.

A view of Littlehampton harbour with gulls flying above.

Day 17: transcendence, suggested by Drew, aka @drewbelf. #mbapr

A misty sunrise over Shoreham Beach.

A rare image of my long-gone fencing days. I’m the one on the right.

Two fencers fencing foil in the grounds of Dollar Academy, Scotland, in the late 1980s.

Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Birds and trees and bluebells.

A dunnock at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken in 1989. The bridge was destroyed in the Croat-Bosniak war four years later. The bridge there now is a recreation.

The original Old Bridge in Mostar, taken in 1989.