Morning walk

 

This is one from March I forgot and taken the week I noticed the Swans starting to nest and a few days before a post I showed a few weeks ago called Reflective moments and if you thought they were reflective then wait till you see these

 

5am and the sun just coloring the sky

The moon was just going down

Two hours later we took the puppy for a walk and I noticed the swan had started nesting

Further up the lake it was mirror like

Reflecting the hills and the trees in the water

Even the brown leaves showed in the reflection

Just like everything was upside down

Looking back a slight haze could be seen

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The Swans

 Update on the swan nesting

 Last time I looked and saw the swans nesting, on my return the other day I walked past the nest and my heart dropped as I noticed one solitary egg, I though they had deserted the nest

A few yards further along and I saw the swans with cygnets

All seven of them

The parents keeping an eye on them all the time

The cygnets stayed close

Mother and young

Take Care

 

St Mary the Virgin Chipping Norton

 

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary the Virgin Chipping Norton a Cathedral like  church with some amazing features to see and Tomb effigies to view 

Grey Sky

 

Back in March my wife & I took a trip to a place called Greys Court a Tudor House not that far from where I live, it is looked after by the National Trust and we took our puppy there for a walk around the grounds. You can read more in the link above and the sky as you will see was far from Grey.

 

The Dower House 

 

Greys Court as you walk up the drive

 

 

This leads to the walled gardens but we could not take the pup in but it is a really nice area to look around

and also has a Lilly pond  

 

The Greys court front, we did not go around the place though in the past we have but the cafe around the back was open so we went for a coffee there

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Few more Roses

 

 I always say you cannot have enough roses and I notice we had more blooming when I went to my greenhouse

 

I went to check on my plants growing

On the way there I passed this rose that was in flower

So when I went to get compost from the area I keep it I passed this rose

This is the bush where the pink rose is I showed you last week

This one called rosa californica is one my wife grew from the original one we still have growing on the other side of the garden. It will be full of blooms in  a few days

One of my favorites Blue for you

This is the yellow one from last week and is what we see from the kitchen window every morning

 

Take Care

St Matthew Llandefalle

 

This week the Church Explorer is wack in Wales to visit  St Matthew Llandefalle. Many times I drove past a sign pointing to the church and thought when I get a chance I will stop off, well this time I did and was surprised at what I found

 

Morning Evening

 

Ok we are finally into March with my backlog and this time I managed to get a sunrise and sunset.

Opened the curtains at 6am and the dawn was just happening

From the bedroom a read glow can be seen about 10min later

From the bathroom

Pink clouds to the south

 Back to the bedroom for a beautiful red dawn

Come sunset we had gone to our caravan in Wales so I got the last of the sunset on the lake with a couple of ducks

 The yellow glow and the last of the daylight

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Roses

 

It's only the beginning of May and I noticed some of the roses in our garden are starting to bloom or bloom in one case 

Olivia a prolific rose which will keep giving blooms for most of the summer it also has a beautiful perfume to it

 It's not just the odd rose blooming the bush is full of them

This is a different rose in bud it will soon be out 

Malvern hills is a rambling rose that grows along the patio fence in front of our kitchen the whole fence will be covered in yellow flowers in a day or so

Different type of flower a peony rose 

Purple clematis 

 

and this white one

 

Take care

St Mary the Virgin Croperdy

 

This week the Church Explorer  visits St Mary the Virgin Croperdy a place well know in the UK for the Fairport Convention Festival that happens. The church is most likely less well known unless you are a church crawler like me

The last of February

 

Well it seems I am still going through my backlog of SkyWatch photos and have now got to the last ones I took back in February. The saying Red Sky in the morning comes to mind with this one and it was a beauty 

Looking out of the bedroom window really did show a glowing orange sky

 Looking out the bathroom window really did show the glow

 Shame the day did not stay that way, later on we had a hale storm, this was the bathroom window.

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