The land is off the Tarka Trail heading toward Barnstaple. These shacks are owned but deserted and I often return to take pictures as they fall into disrepair. I mean fuck, gimmie a model and we can shoot form French Vogue.

She’s sniffing here. Doberman’s have a highly tuned sense of smell and that sniffer is going all the time. She’s doing so well now. She cowered constantly when we first got her due to the violent abuse at the puppy farm we rescued her from. She’d be whipped across the snout daily. That’s what the scars are from, the specks of white in the next photo down on her snout. Now she only gets kisses, walks and treats. And look at her coat now. That’s her diet showing. Before, her hair was patchy and lank.

Yeah, just chillin’, stokin’ a bonfire and checkin’ on one of the horses. That’s my Dad in the top photo! It’s  rare I put family members on my blog or online but I made sure he was OK with it. Check those clouds.

At this time, these last few weeks since July 17th I’ve been almost exclusively at my PC writing a screenplay during the day and re-writing in the evenings or researching for it. This was a break and it felt good to get some fresh air.

But, I consider the last few years a break so I got back to work straight after this and won’t stop until it’s complete. Then, I have 3 more I’m working on, one of which just needs a severe re-write.

I put the Paparrazi work on the back burner for now. I figure this will be more longterm beneficial and I’m lovin’ every minute of it. I’ve always wanted to write and produce my own material so now I am.

Calf – taken at great personal risk, I might add! Look at the horn on that Cow! Pardon? That’s not what I mean you dirty-minded perv! I mean the one coming out of it’s fakkin’ head!

Note* The detail in the fur. I never knew Cows had fur…awwwwwwwwwww!

Available as a postcard, print, canvas or billboard!

Not that you can tell it’s spring equinox but it was at the time of shooting this photo in the field next door to mine. Equinox is the time when spring returns and rejuvenates our own life force. Oh, that’s a tractor tire the sun’s shining through!

Spring Equinox

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The term equinox can also be used in a broader sense, meaning the date when such a passage happens.

The name is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because around the equinox, the night and day are approximately equally long. It may be better understood to mean that latitudes +L and -L north and south of the equator experience nights of equal length.

The word is also used for the same event happening on other planets and in setting up a celestial coordinate system; see equinox (celestial coordinates).

At an equinox, the Sun is at one of two opposite points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator (i.e. declination 0) and ecliptic intersect. These points of intersection are called equinoctial points: the vernal point and the autumnal point. By extension, the term equinox may denote an equinoctial point.

An equinox happens each year at two specific moments in time (rather than two whole days), when the centre of the Sun can be observed to be vertically above the Earth‘s Equator, occurring around March 20/21 and September 22/23 each year.

Northam burrows beach. There’s quite a few of these now.

Took a ride to Instow where there’s a small inland lake and lots of wild life along the Tarka Trail. The Tarka Trail is a series of footpaths and cycle paths around north Devon, England that follow the route taken by Tarka the Otter in the book of that name. It is a figure-of-eight route, based on Barnstaple, and covers some 180 miles of path.

The route covers a wide variety of landscapes, including: wooded river valleys, rugged moorland, coastal cliffs and sandy bays. Walking varies between easy and strenuous, depending on the location, but, in general, it is comprehensively waymarked.

The trails are now a popular tourist destination and bicycle hire businesses are available for those who wish to cycle along suitable sections of the trail. A section of the Trail is part of National Cycle Network route number 27 and forms part of the Devon Coast to Coast Cycle Route, a 102-mile route from Ilfracombe, in the north, to Plymouth, in the south, largely using former railway lines.

My first trip to Instow this year. I like the surreal quality of these.

Where is everyone?