Church Memorials

 

This week the Church Explorer sows some of the Many Church memorials he has come across in his visits. Some you will find are very old others more modern and many very elaborate in design. The memorials shown here were taken in the Old Church at Nunham Courtenay 

A February Sunset

 

 The beginning of February while sorting dinner I looked out at a wonderful sunset the clouds a beautiful shade of pink. The photos were taken from the bathroom and bedroom windows

 Looking left towards the sunset the sky got a little darker and an orange cloud cross the sky

Out the back window the the sky reflected the pink of the sunset

Happy Skywatch

Love Is

 

 

The Daffodil

 

Wandering around the garden looking for inspiration I noticed the Daffodils growing in our garden or at least starting to grow. I noticed them poking their heads up back in January and thought it would not be long before they would be in bloom. I thought it would be good to show the various stages of a daffodil.

Just out of the ground, you can see the flower head in the middle

A little taller now and the head it growing well

Reaching up for the sky

The bending over to look around

Start shedding the outer sheath 

and open the head

And there we are.

That it more of less how a daffodil grows

The photos were taken of a few different daffodils that were growing here a week or so ago, this picture was taken today and nearly all of them are in flower. 

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St Peter Didcot

 

 This week the Church Explorer shows you the old church of St Peter Didcot. The church de-consecrated in 1977 and now is Northbourne Community centre.

Snow drop sky

 

This week I thought I would show the sky from a different viewpoint, like a bugs eye view 

 The Snowdrops tower overhead

They look like alien plants looking down

The nearby plant looks like a huge tree towing over the snowdrops

 and finish we look up at the first daffodil as it starts to flower

Happy Skywatch

 

Rosehips & Snowdrops

 

Macro Magic

 

 This week for a change I thought I would show some macro shots which with my EOS R6 DSLR and 100mm macro lens

Drips of water are always a good subject

Though focusing it is not easy hand held on some things

This rose hip makes a good subject

Along with snowdrops

 

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Stained Glass

 

This week the Church Explorer show some of the  stained glass from Churches visited, some is very old others modern but  all share the same beauty in a church. The stained glass shown here are from Little Coxwell Church Visit the other first to see more stained glass.

Snowy Morning Sky

 

Towards the end of January we has snow, I looked out of the bedroom window to a smattering of snow on the ground 

The morning looked cold an frosty

A little later it did start to snow a little heavier

Then it cleared leaving the ground with a covering of snow

Next Morning it was a different story with a crisp clear dawn

Happy Skywatch

Drippy Tap

 

 

The Walk Home

 

Carrying on from last weeks walk of the East end of Cholsey, I left you outside Blackhalls Farm now we will carry on back to the village

 

You can walk here through the old farm yard as it is a footpath

You will walk past the gates to this place Blackhalls Farm which used to own most of the surrounding land, this is where the owner of the old Danish Bacon company lived. I might add another person called Janet Wedgewood live here as well who was a local photographer who had links to the Wedgwood family 

 

This is the front of the Farmhouse

Nearby is this lane that runs to some houses further along, this is most likely where the old Wallingford Road went

It went in this direction towards Bow Bridge, the corn dryers have been built over the old road

Further along you can look bast the corn barns towards some houses where the backs face old road

It would have one along to the front hedges you seen in the field where it linked with another road also now gone.  Further on it connected to the Turnpike

We go along this concrete track laid by a farmer for their use, it has now been adopted as a footpath

Look over to the right you see the houses on the old East End Farm land, the filed I am looking across will be part of that estate in the near future when they start building on it.

As you near the end of the track you come to this building which is the local veterinary surgery but once there was another building here an abattoir, all that remains of it now are the building in the foreground where the animals were kept. The place now keeps animals that are sick

The track come out by this path which is part of Ilgies lane and takes you to the Reading road, once you could walk across that road and get to the Tames but they moved the footpath

This is the Vets, when it first opened the building was in the carpark in front and the Old abattoir stood where the new building is now

This where we go now along Ilgies Lane which is one of the oldest roads in the village.

 You will walk though a lot of modern housing before coming to this part which is the older part of the village, the red brick building you see ahead was the Eagle Pub but closed many years ago,carry on along the lane brings you to the village.

The Morland Artist in Brewing sign on the former Eagle Pub

I'm a little late in showing this photo which is of Red Cow Cottage along the Wallingford Road. It was taken from the back of the house I lived in across the field around 1982. It shows that this is the front of the house and the old Wallingford Road would have run past the front of where you see it. since this photo was taken the field up to the fence you see is now a housing estate.

I will leave you here and show you another part in another blog

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