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On the old road from Barnstaple to Braunton a listing milestone marked with the Medieval Latin inscription of BARUM. As at August 2011 this stone is currently feared broken and is being investigated by the Milestone Society and Devon County Council.
Can anyone help identify these please? I found these fruits growing on a large shrub or small tree in Lee (North Devon, UK) this afternoon. I collected them and some twigs with leaves. The fruits show a faint cellular pattern on their skins and inside there are hard seeds - rather like those of a prickly pear. I guessed at some kind of arbutus but the fruits look different from the photos I have found of arbutus fruits...
I should have taken a tripod! Hand held, slow exposure of an unexpectedly dramatic and lovely waterfall at Bucks Mills.
I wasn't sure whether to post these images. Flystrike is one of the most horrifying afflictions of the sheep. The flies responsible are a metalic green colour and they lay their eggs in the sheep's fleece. In the right conditions the eggs hatch and the maggots start to eat the surface of the sheep's skin. The smell this process gives off attracts more flies to lay eggs and soon the sheep is enveloped in maggots. The maggots first damage the skin producing an injury like a burn. Then they start to burrow deeper. The surface damage alone can kill the sheep and the process can take only a few days. I caught this one in time. The maggots are starting to emerge from the wool after I had applied some synthetic pyrethroid insecticide.
A disputed site but nonetheless at the right spot in the Census returns for the toll-house in what is now St Brannocks Road Ilfracombe but appeared as Vicarage Road at that time. The blanked window above the door and porch is suggestive of a possible gate here. More in the book 'Toll-houses of North Devon' by T.Jenkinson and P Taylor (2010),