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Spring is on it's way.

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Kashmir Goat on the Great Orme

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Disappointment

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Walker's Epitaph II - a follow on from Trash Talk Tuesday's picture.

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Peace and Harmony - to become so at peace with a place as to become a part of it.

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Barren Beauty

Today provided a grey windswept lunchtime break, not the most inspiring weather to try and fulfil Crow's (@DeForestRanger) brief. I headed out of my comfort zone (the local woods and nature reserve) and off to the bleak estuary of the River Clwyd. In the biting wind I tromped through the mud (much to the amusment of my students when I got back to work) and snapped a few images - not pleased with anything, and reeling from earache with the wind. As I headed back, the patch of flattened grass caught my eye and provided salvation!

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Willow Carr

A (thankfully) forgotten lowland Willow and Alder Carr on the edge of Rhyl. With mechanisation and modern drainage methods, wet woodlands such as this are becoming increasingly rare.

Willow trees, as well as having medicinal uses, can support a staggering number of invertebrates (over 450 species) and lichens (over 160 species) and are second only to old growth Oak Woodland (in the UK). With such an insect profusion, they support large numbers of birds, and the humid atmosphere supports ferns, mosses, sedges and rushes.