Cattle With the Best Views
Sorcha Lewis is a farmer’s wife in the Elan Valley who has photography as a hobby as shown in a previous Pictorial Wales, Dark Skies Over Elan Valley. On this occasion Welsh Country looks at some cattle on their farm […]
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The Strait of Time
I see the Menai Strait: Without both its bridges. Naked of all its man made-ness. Void of time. By the ‘Long Wall of Wales.’ I imagine cattle waders And farmer traders; And brave perilous sailors; Shipwrecked and buried by sand. […]
Welsh Farmers Markets from a Personal Point of View
Welsh Farmers Markets from a personal point of view is the start of a series of articles looking at Farmers Markets across Wales, their benefits and down falls to us the general public, to the traders that stand the markets […]
Oh How I Wish
Oh how I wish I had the words to match the memory, imagination’s sand reality that slips through longings to express the beauty that I see, the power sensed and felt of wooded Wye and Tintern’s stone, the wave soaked […]
Patrick M Higgins Photography
I work mostly in north west England, where I live and west Wales where I spend as much time as I can. I take both architectural and landscape images, but in a real sense my subject is always light. I […]
A Favourite Spot
Above Llanberis near the foot of Snowdon on Betws-y-Coed road, its tarmac line a weary winding through the grassy foothills, beside a lake which gleams in heaven’s shine: a lay-by overlooking silent waters whose dancing shades call gently back the […]
The Brave Daniel Thomas
As always, we were seeking a grave. Above Porth and in driving rain I explored the Independent Chapel in Cymer. It is derelict now and I couldn’t get past the scaffolding to the graves. The chapel was once an important […]
An Arctic Clock
Away from Wales where Ships Still Dock… An Arctic Clock Ports docked and clocks watched. And a new view from the ships watch. Pilot boat close and tidal swell. Pilot leaps and ship horns yell- Goodbye. And thank you. And […]
Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” If I tell you that my subject’s bio, in my trusty biographical dictionary, is considerably longer […]
Llandrindod’s Lake
There’s a lake beside Llandrindod Wells, not large like those of which Lake District boasts, small, unmoving in a bowl of trees, and lacking energy of wilder coasts: café’s there, prestigiously supported, providing snacks, cake, drinks, and some main courses: […]
The Summer Garden 2025
After the recent end to a long sunny period without rain and the premature flowering of so many plants, it is difficult to realise that officially, summer is only just beginning. Since I bought and planted numerous plants and shrubs […]
Drawing Thoughts
Do you at times find your mind wondering seemingly in random directions except they are really very connected? Jane Griffiths Jones one of the wonderful regular contributors to the Welsh Country website started with a book, well not really a […]