Granite tors wear summer dress of sedges, sphagnum and cotton grass
by Virginia Spiers from on (#EBQX)
St Breward, Bodmin Moor: Skylarks sing above this expanse where drifts of flowering grasses mix with stony outcrops and turf sprinkled with tormentil
Cloud shadows sweep across the green of Treswallock Downs, in Cornwall, and the adjoining moorland. Skylarks sing above this expanse of open grazing where drifts of flowering grasses, sedges and rushes mix with granite outcrops, remains of ancient settlements, and turf sprinkled with tormentil.
From the top of Alex Tor the vista extends as far as Pentire Head on the north coast, west to the Cornish alps of St Austell and towards old china clay tips at nearby Stannon, now grassed over.
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