I am lucky to live in an area of the United States were many types of birds migrate throughout the year. It just so happens that my backyard is within walking…
On my walk last week I noticed overnight that someone had adorned the hoardings of the Pegasus retirement complex building site hoarding on the Bath and Bristol…
This week I walked around a different part of Bath mainly along Walcott Street, Milsom Street and the top end of Bath. Again I found lots of empty shops,…
One of the things about a city one lives in its silent moments or the times that it slumbers gently, often quietest just before or at dawn. This is the time I…
A striking feature of many cities and towns is the spontaneous aggregation of escaped garden plants which decorate the margins of pavements. These pavement…
Today I got up at 5.30 am and did a 2 hour walk across Bath and apart from an empty bus, two refuse lorries and one car saw no one. Seems Sunday is still a…
I love it when one sees things in one's neighbourhood that have always been there but one has never seen them before. They seem to catch one unawares yet are no…
I am delighted in seeing a new trend in Bath where people in flats are beginning to populate, where they can, the entrance doorways of their buildings. It is a…
One of the free floral delights in the streets of Bath City in the UK is the Adria Bellfower (Campanula postenschlagiana) which adorns many of Bath's sandstone…
On an early walk earlier this week near my house I popped in to visit the Lower Common East allotments in Bath, which is situated just up the road from where I…
Big global events like Covid-19 create their own physical debris and ephemera. In this posting I decided to document some of the many signs that businesses and…
This morning I went for a very early morning stroll through my city having been inside for nearly 9 weeks. It is Sunday morning and a Bank Holiday. If it had…
Many shops have closed in Bath over the last few months and in my walk around the city I noticed some had closed for good. This has been a worrying trend over…
Late winter is a good time to photograph birds on a balcony. In Taichung, the phenomenon of defoliation is not obvious in autumn. Even if bird friends visit my…
Bath on Easter day was still surprisingly busy. I watched musicians perform on the streets. Visited the Roman Baths and walked around the city. Eventually I had…