Tag Archives: Photography

May Is Bluebell Time in the Welsh Woods

Photo: Mike Alexander - scapeimages.com
Photo: Mike Alexander – scapeimages.com

Spring River

Photo: Mike Alexander - scapeimages.com
Photo: Mike Alexander – scapeimages.com

Spring comes to the mountains and valleys of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales

Remember

https://soundcloud.com/mike-howe-1/remember-by-mike-howe

I’m working on a new album.  Here’s a sneak preview of one of the songs, hope you like it

Lovely photo by Mike Alexander

Nice and simple

I don’t know about you but the more I hear and see on the news the more I need something ‘nice’ and simple.  No big debates, no big opinions, no big conspiracies, no big injustices, just ‘nice’…

Back In The Mountains

Another road trip this week took me back to the mountains in glorious spring sunshine 🙂

Photo: Mike Howe
Photo: Mike Howe

 

Photo: Mike Howe
Photo: Mike Howe

March daffodils

 

The daffodils are emerging.  Here at Bodnant Garden in North Wales they put on a spectacular display in the Old Park Meadow…

Photo: Mike Alexander
Photo: Mike Alexander
Photo: Mike Alexander
Photo: Mike Alexander

Later in the summer the meadow looks like this…

Photo: Mike Alexander
Photo: Mike Alexander

The National Trust own this fabulous garden and are managing a lot of it for wild flowers, pollinating insects, birds and mammals, which is great because 98% of these old hay meadows have been lost from the Welsh countryside in the last 50 years because of agricultural intensification…

Photo: Mike Howe
Photo: Mike Howe