Just a mile from my home and studio are these granite tors of Bodmin Moor.

I often walk here, and today, with the glorious blue sty and clear air, I took a few photos to show you.

In the image above there's a carved flour-de-lis. When cut into the granite in 1864 these would have also been painted to clearly mark the upper limits of granite quarrying on the tors (rocky peaks) of Kilmar, Bearah and Stowe Hill to protect them from destruction and retain their natural profiles, formed over the millennia.