300 million years too young - # 09/19

Richmond Park is a rare thing: an area of acid grassland 8 miles in circumference and a site of special scientific interest.

It's a rich source for photographers. When conditions are right I try to turn it into "The Land that Time Forgot". Fortunately the dinosaurs are all away for the day when I go out to play.

This relic of a storm-felled tree made me think of the carboniferous age when our great hard-coal seams, essential to the making of iron and steel and the driving of giant steam engines, were laid down.