Marvellous Mawddach Mustelid - Pine marten getting some winter sun.
#Eryri #Meirionnydd

Diffwys and a slightly frozen Llyn Cwm Mynach.
#Eryri #meirionnydd

A dark moss- and lichen-covered squat troll of a stone casts a short black shadow over the scrubby moorland grass in the noon sunshine on a cloudless day. It appears as if it is tipping its head quizzically, whilst behind it lies a long, pale grey massive toppled stone. There must be some connection here between these very different neighbours that has remained in place for perhaps thousands of years, but the narrative lost… perhaps yet to be rediscovered? To the left, the bleak hillside slopes away upwards to a bright blue sky in the distance and, to the right, it drops away to reveal a bright blue sea. A place of many memories.

Remembering the sunshine on the hill with a motley collection of standing and fallen stones for #StandingStoneSunday #Meirionnydd

Pine marten meets Cat !
#Meirionnydd #Eryri

Barmouth walking festival kicked off today, walk 3 Coed Aber Atro and Coed Lletywalter with Coed Cadws Kirsten Manley and me entertaining the walkers.
#Wales #Eryri #Meirionnydd

Photo of roughly hewn giant grey stones forming a bridge over a black stream dappled in sunlight. The surrounding grass is bright lime green and there is a jumble of more grey rocks on the opposite stream bank and a few small leafy summer trees. In the distance a large grey craggy mountain looms up to a grey cloudy sky - but the pervasive light by the bridge is bright and clear. The sort of place you always want to return to and will always be there.

The thick time mountain clapper bridge forever crossing the black waters of the Afon Arthog stream and leading to the enigmatic ancient hut remains of Llys Bradwen #Meirionnydd

#MustelidMonday offerings from the Mawddach woodlands.
Pine marten mummy (closest with reddish fur) and 2 kits rest on a fallen Oak.
Cwm Mynach - CoedCadw
#Eryri #Meirionnydd #Wales

Photo of a white water waterfall cascading into a black rocky pool surrounded by mosses and ferns in various shades of green. Above the water, tall spindly oaks with lime green leaves wave their arms at the sky.

Celtic rainforest looking lush this afternoon #Meirionnydd

How does a Pine marten eat Bilberries I hear you ask !
Cwm Mynach - Coed Cadw
#Meirionnydd #Eryri #Pinemarten
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A waist height irregularly shaped grey standing stone which rises to a point stands on shortly cropped green grass amidst tall purple flowering thistles. Beyond, the land drops away dramatically to give an infinity pool view of a calm salmon pink sea reflecting a pink sunset. The distant horizon is marked by a dark mountainous peninsula which pencils a thin line between sea and sky.

Sunset around midsummer at one of the two stones of the Parth y Gwyddwch (domain of knowledge) stone row #Meirionnydd for #StandingStoneSunday

Clearing out the invasive species at Coed Tyn y Coed, Rhodydendron and conifers removed from a sublime Celtic rainforest near Barmouth.
#WorldNatureConservationDay
#Eryri #Meirionnydd

Waist-high, a pointy, lichen-covered standing stone stands in a patch of yellow reeds on verdant open moorland. An interesting green tump rises up behind, beyond which, white swirling clouds do their best to mask the looming dark blue shadow of the Cadair Idris massif with peaks of Gau Craig, Mynydd Moel, Penygadair and Cyfrwy. Above the sky is hazy blue with white clouds.

The interesting little stone in the hills above Brithdir #Meirionnydd with a distant Cadair Idris looming out of swirling cloud for #StandingStoneSunday. Near an area called Marchnad Mawr (big market) — a bare open hillside where farmers would hold their own private markets to avoid road tolls.

A weathered double-sided wooden signpost stands before an old stone wall built from a jumble of angular, lichen-covered stones. The rough grassland in front of the wall has two tall spiny thistle plants just starting to come into flower. Over the wall, many more of these thistles are visible - almost like a crop.

An upland waymarker by an ancient track in #Meirionnydd for #FingerpostFriday - next to an old stone wall enclosing a field of knee high cruel thistles #stayonthepath

Mustelid Monday offerings from the sublime Mawddach estuary. Pine marten with 3 kits enjoying the mossy branches of this temperate rain forest Oak.
#Eryri #Meirionnydd #Mawddach
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A rounded, white lichen-encrusted standing stone standing amid cobbles and loose white sheep wool on a green hill overlooking a calm violet sea. The golden orb of the sun is low in a chalky blue sky and looks like the eye of a daisy from which white clouds stream outwards like petals. The sun casts a gold and orange glitterpath on the sea which links the hill with the stone to the distant mountains on the peninsula over the bay.

A summer solstice season sunset from Thursday night at the Parth y Gwyddwch stone row #Meirionnydd The sun’s glitterpath points to Mynnydd Rhiw (site of Neolithic axe factory) on the Lleyn Peninsular.

Blue sky over rough moorland where two megalithic stones are sited in close proximity. The nearest, in shadow and coated in thick lichen and dark green moss, has a curved, person-like form, as if its head is tilted to one side, questioning. The more distant has fallen. It is a massive, straight-sided, rectangular monolith, bathed in light.

Two of the Morfa stones #Meirionnydd continuing their silent connection and unresolved sudoku of shape for #StandingStoneSunday

A grey lichen-covered standing stone on rough moorland looks out above forestry onto a white-horses-edged bay of chalky blue and the shadowy blue outline of mountains beyond. There is a trace of a yellow sunset just appearing above the mountains, but the sky above is bright blue.

Another shot from yesterday’s trip home over the mountain: the lesser-photographed stone of the Bryn Seward stone row high above Friog, #Meirionnydd overlooking the curve of the bay and on to the Lleyn Peninsular beyond.

Moulting Pine marten out in the day on an oak festooned with moss, ferns, liverworts and lichens.

Mawddach Pine marten with full moulting face mask enjoying the temperate zone.
#eryri #Mawddach #Meirionnydd

Today, we chill

#ybermo #gwynedd #meirionnydd #Cymru

Pine marten with a fluffylight brown winter coat emerging from a bramble thicket on to a moss covered blown over tree.

#MustelidMonday from the Pine marten playground that is the Mawddach.
#Eryri #Meirionnydd

Cadair Idris about 10 minutes ago.
#Eryri #Meirionnydd

Big spidery Ash tree covered in ivy and moss

Not much of a trunk on show but the thickness is there.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Ash Barmouth #Meirionnydd

A pot of vegetable soup on the go. We call it 'Meirionnydd Soup' in honour of Auguste Guyard, known locally as 'the Frenchman', who settled in Barmouth after leaving Paris. He was a gardener and philosopher and spent his remaining years tending gardens on the slopes of Dinas Oleu and making Meirionnydd Soup, which he shared with the local poor. He was buried where he lived above Barmouth, and you can visit his grave and see the beautiful view he loved.

I often make a vegetable soup on Sundays. We call it 'Meirionnydd Soup' in honour of Auguste Guyard, who had a fascinating story and lived out his final years in Barmouth, gardening and making Meirionnydd Soup.
#augusteguyard #thefrenchman #Barmouth #Meirionnydd #Meirionnyddsoup

The full moon at dawn setting over the sea with a fruiting ivy covered wall in the foreground

A singing robin at dawn and the Wolf Moon setting over Cardigan Bay just now #Meirionnydd