Farewell, Criccieth
Farewell, Criccieth, our holiday is done, we’ve enjoyed our stay, we’ve enjoyed our fun, shared together in caravan, on beach as the sun has shone, we’ve all got brown: rain has come and gone that caused a frown but did […]
Latest Features
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 […]
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 […]