special places

I haven't anything made and not already shown so I thought I would post some photo's of a couple of my favourite places. 

The first three photos are taken as we were driving back across Dartmoor after leaving my Mothers house for the last time and on our last visit before she died. I'm not sure when I will feel up for driving across Dartmoor again. But we have so many happy memories of visiting with our children when they were young and older, also with our grandchildren. Taking my Mum for picnics, the children paddling in the rivers and lovely walks up the tors. 

Today I went our to Pitstone Windmill which is just a short drive from where we live....I have posted the windmill before, I love going at different times of the year. The sun isn't shining today but it is still VERY hot. The wheat fields surrounding the windmill are beautiful, the colours shine in the sunlight. I tried to snap a photo of the very pretty butterfly, but he would only open is wings after I had clicked.

God's creation never ceases to amaze me.

Devon

We have just arrived home from three days in Devon, clearing out my mothers house and visiting her in her new home. She has been a little unwell, not eating or drinking much and become quite frail. Hopefully she will pick up again soon. We had three days of beautiful sunshine and also spent an evening and night with the grandchildren :)

driving across Dartmoor

view from the tidal road near our daughters house

boats waiting for a trip up the river

dartmoor

We love Dartmoor and our children have grown up taking walks, paddling in streams and climbing tors. I'm not sure we will visit Dartmoor so often now that my Mum has moved from her house near Yelverton. But the twins and Gilby love to walk and climb and here are some photo's that my daughter took at the weekend.

Gilby looking at the girls and daddy up on Haytor

Primrose bringing up the rear

an amazing view

Dartmoor

For those of you who don't know Dartmoor, it is a beautiful, wild part of Devon. When our third child was just a few months old we moved from Cornwall to Devon. Both counties are beautiful and thankfully we have family living in both so we get to visit regularly. My mother moved from Devon to a little village on the edge of Dartmoor and so when our four children were growing up we spent many a time exploring this amazing countryside. Visits are great in all weathers, the Summer time brings opportunity to stop and picnic and paddle in shallow rivers, the Autumn brings diverse colours and wild weather that follows into the Winter when on the rare occasion we may experience snow. Then comes the Spring when the plants begin to bloom and visitors can stop and watch lambs prancing and Dartmoor ponies with their young. Walkers and cyclists are at home on Dartmoor, there are tors to climb and villages to visit for a cream tea.

I am glad that now my Grandchildren get to visit Dartmoor,  explore the land and be blessed

Photo Shoot

I though I would post some mor eof my sons photo's. These have just come out in the October issue of Harpers Bazaar. He took them in Devon, near where he grew up. Some are on Dartmoor and some on Burgh Island. I love the natural locations of the shots

Just back from our holiday, I thought I would post some photo's of out trip, beginning in Wiltshire then travelling down to the West Country.

 Wiltshire

 St Ives, Cornwall

 St Ives

 Dartmoor, Devon

 Kingswear, Devon

 View from Dartmouth, Devon

Sunset over the campsite in Kingsbridge, Devon

The holiday was fun but pretty busy, taking time out with both of our mothers and also having the twins camp with us for a couple of nights which they loved...and so did we!

The Royal Wedding

Last Thursday I drove down to Devon to spend a couple of days with my Mum and then one day and night with my daughter and family. I had arranged to sit with my Mum and watch the wedding, I took scones, strawberry jam and Cornish clotted cream and made a cream tea for us to eat while watching!

We really enjoyed the coverage of the wedding, I liked the fact that the whole wedding had a stronge spiritual emphasis and that William and Katherine had written their own prayer.I pray that God will bless their marriage and life together.

 When the wedding was over I took my Mum for a drive across Dartmoor where we found an ice cream van and stopped to eat a cone each in the car. While our children were growing up we lived in Devon and spent many a lovely day picnicing on the moors and paddling in the lovely cool streams. Such a great place for children to grow up. And now some of my grandchildren are enjoying the same upbringing, moors and beaches what could be better!