Rachel Burch

The Collybrook stream near Peter Tavy last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

A country lane with a church tower at the end

View of Peter Tavy church tower last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #countryside

And there’s mistakes in that I’m tired and Bluesky doesn’t let one edit thanks for reading 👍.

Miraculously better. I haven’t in bit just not one of those people who drone on about their health all the time. I’m not a warrior or a hero it’s just boring 🤣. my photos are different. I’m only able to go out in the afternoons health wise and only for an hour. Just a reminder 👍.

I have to say this every few months I am an unwell wheelchair user, I’m not going to be getting up at dawn and walking miles on the moor. I can walk but only five metre at at time. I can’t sit up very long to travel. When you have a chronic illness if you don’t mention it people assume you’ve got

A misty sunrise with sycamore buds

Dartmoor morning April 2011. #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

Gate and lane near Peter Tavy

Footpath with oaks

Tudor carvings at Peter Tavy church

Primroses in Peter Tavy churchyard

Pictures taken this week near Peter Tavy and inside Peter Tavy church, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

A flat stone in a moorland landscape.

Apple crusher stone at Merrivale, c2012, it’s still there ☺️. I think it was quarried from the nearby quarry and never finished. #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #landscape #blackandwhite

The Collybrook (stream name) that runs through Peter Tavy, filmed this week. #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

I thought the bowl felt a bit heavy …. He’s grown up in my garden only met him twice 🙂 #hedgehogs. Clip from earlier this evening.

The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement designed and embroidered in communal workshops by skilled women artists #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth

A series of whimsical renaissance wooden carvings on a church wall

Green man ? Disgorging head,.

Wider view of sprites

View of boards against a wall

Beautiful Tudor woodcarvings in Peter Tavy church this week. It’s likely they were a local wealthy family’s pew box, they would have been carved C1500, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #history #Tudor

An oval print of a woman as tree with arms a sun and moon.

Tree of life by Gertrude Hermes, undated but likely to be 1930s, she worked in print and sculpture. #printmaking #art

I was driving my wheelchair near my home last summer when a group of teenage girls passed by and said !I’d hate to be like that’ one said “I’d rather die’
Now I do wear hearing aids but I could hear them.
‘Hello’ I waved. And do F off’
And no I shouldn’t have been nicer they should’ve known better.

Walls and trees on a sunny day

Spaces between stone walled fields above Peter Tavy this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape

Yes great aren’t they.

A footpath with an oak.

Close up of large trunk

Second trunk close up

Oak and footpath at Peter Tavy this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #oaks

I know most of the places very interesting project.

Primroses in a churchyard in an English village.

Primroses in Peter Tavy churchyard yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #wildflowers

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May have to find room for this - fascinating Dartmoor colour wheel.

Nope

Yeah I think it does.

Common Wood-Pigeon European Robin o Carrion Crow Western Barn Owl •

This is the second day Merlin app has heard a barn owl in my garden 😂. I suppose it’s technically possible I’m not far from fields but I’ve heard nothing …

A gate and stone walls along a country lane.

Lane, gate and walls near Peter Tavy yesterday, see if you can spot the sheep, I didn’t when taking the picture 🙂, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #landscape

Stream (known as the Collybrook), near Peter Tavy today, what a lovely sunny day in #Devon it was! Western #Dartmoor. #photography #landscape #nature

I ordered some more straw for the hedgehog box but my resident has taken matters into his own paws 🐾🙂. Last night … #hedgehogs

Sheep and cows on moorland common with a clouded blue sky.

Sheep and cows, on Ringmoor Down, above Sheepstor last April, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #sheep #photography

A stone wall and tree in fog in a black and white photo.

Fourwinds old school site, in October mist Autumn, 2024, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #blackandwhite

The moon looks amazing tonight I won’t be taking any pics because you know chronic illness wheelchair etc but I did it see from my chair. Low and orange hanging near the Princetown mast.

Three ponies facing the camera on moorland.

Ponies near Brentor a few Mays ago, on a lovely Spring day, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #ponies