Of all the mornings not to have taken my camera on Harv's walk!

Ideally, I would have taken this with a longer exposure but I was walking Harv and didn't have my tripod with me.

This year I'm going to experiment with black and white a bit.

Daffodils on a Sunny Easter Sunday about halfway down Crawleyside Bank.

Yes, this again.

I spotted this nuthatch mooching in the leaves on the bankside along Stanhope Dene, but by the time I'd switched to my long lens it had gone. I was lucky to spot it again climbing up a tree about 30 feet away.

A bumbler pollinating along Stanhope Dene, taken from about 10 feet away with my longest lens at its longest reach.

In mid May I saw the Northern Lights for the first time, out of my office window!

This year I procrastinated my way into missing the wild garlic bloom, at least with my camera. I did, however, get some snaps with my phone while I was out walking Harv. This is from Slitt Woods near Westgate.

More wild garlic from Slitt Woods.

A late evening walk to the tiny reservoir above Slitt Woods.

For a couple of mornings in May, the dew picked out a blanket of spider webs covering the heather.

Late evening sunshine on the heather-covered fells in July.

At the end of a sunny Sunday, I decided to take a walk in the golden hour only for a bank of whispy cloud to settle in front of the setting sun, diffusing the light and making everything quite flat.

Having really missed it last year, I was determined to get at least a few heather photos this summer.

One of the old quarry faces along Crawley Edge. I haven't been able to find much information about these. They are marked on the OS six inch map from the mid-19th century in a way that suggests they were active then. On later editions, sometime between 1888 and 1915, they are marked as 'Old Quarries' and presumably no longer in use. The much larger Ashes Quarry, further down the bank, is not on the earlier maps, but opened in the 1870s and is on the later maps.

Shame about the gate!

When the Northern Lights showed up again in October I headed up to the fell behind the house. It was definitely worth the cold fingers!

Looking SW, so the Northern Lights were more of a hint, but here they are with a very faint Milky Way. My battery was getting low by this point, so I couldn't set up to take hundreds of shots to stack together to make it brighter.