High summer at Ashton Court

We've found that as long as we pick our time, we can find relative solitude at Ashton Court, despite the pressure on open urban spaces as a result of the pandemic. So we've been going up there every couple of months or so this year, and now it's high summer's turn to take centre stage. 

The oak that's always first to greet us

yellow rattle

View over central Bristol, including the Wills Memorial building, Cabot Tower and St Mary Redcliffe

View over south Bristol with Kelston Roundhill on the horizon

View across to Dundry

Path to Summerhouse Plantation

Green where there were bluebells last time we were here

The Fattest Oak in ceremonial solstice robes

Fox or badger sett

I wish I could read bark. This is in sycamore. 

Nature watching with Cwtch the collie

Christmas Lights in Bristol

 Early morning in Clifton

 Lunchtime on Wine Street

Three in the afternoon on Narrow Quay

Bristol, there've been times I've tried to leave you ...

... but somehow I forget to unhook the elastic strap from the back of my belt ...

... and I'm left doing a sort of horizontal bungee jump over and over again. 

I'm getting tired now ...

... and it's no real hardship to abandon resistance ...

... not on days like these.

Cranes on Princes Wharf

The Wills Memorial Building and Cathedral from M Shed

Looking south to Totterdown

Arnolfini on Narrow Quay

St Augustine's Reach

Over to Cabot Tower on Brandon Hill

Cathedral Steps

The Triangle