St Giles Cumnor

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Giles Cumnor a wonderful church in a prominent position in the village. This blog is split over two weeks with part 2 showing the inside of the church

River sky

 

A few more photo's I too from Days lock the other day only making sure there was a good helping of sky in them

On the way there I stopped off to get a photo of this new estate which is another piece of land grabbing so the farmland up to the bypass could be used for new housing, these are the first few built, all around more are going up.

Days lock only this time taken with my R6

Looking upstream from the lock

The other way through the lock, in the background you can see part of Wittenham Clumps

This a closer look taken from the bottom of the bridge, this part of the clumps is Castle hill which is an old iron age fort

From the bottom of the bridge again looking towards the weir

 

On the way home we stopped of at this place Neptune wood which is part of the Trafalgar woods project in 2005 to mark the Battle of Trafalgar. HMS Neptune was one of the ships in the battle

 

Happy Skywatch

 

Peeking out

 

 

Days Lock

 

Day's lock  is at a place called Little Wittenham along the Thames near Dorchester. I went along there with my son to get some photos of the lock and other interesting places nearby.

After parking near the church you follow the path along here towards the bridge you see. There is another one after this I did not get a photo of which is the Poohsticks bridge of at least was, the arch bridge I remember has been replaced by a flat decked bridge that is able to support traffic to the Environment Agency compound there

Skipping a bit here and over the third bridge this is from the bridge looking towards Dorchester and the abbey there

This is Days lock which is to the right

The arch span I took the photos from

The weir with a lot of water flowing through it

Not something you would want to fall in

You can just see Poohsticks bridge in the distance which is not as romantic as the old wooden one. No doubt kids still play pooh stick there

This is the bridge I took the photos from earlier

Time to head back over the bridge past the Lock Keepers cottage You can see more photos around the lock on Skywatch Friday

Take Care and have a good week

Taking Part in My Little Corner of the World  Our World Tuesday and Imag-in-ing, you can find all the links in the right hand column. I'm also linking with Wandering Camera this week 

Take care everyone 

 

St Mary the Virgin Kidlington

 

 This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary the Virgin Kidlington, a church which is not easy to get to because of all the roads through the town but well worth visiting. The church is know locally as Our Lady's Needle

Monday Morning

 

Monday morning it was time to get up and let the dog out. On opening the door I looked along the patio  & noticed the sky, it was red

Though this was take after the next two it gives an idea as to what I saw

After letting the dog out I ran back upstairs with my phone and took this shot across the houses the sun causing the sky to go red

with an odd streak where there was a gap in the clouds

I went back upstairs when I noticed the sky deepening in colour

Such a beautiful colour

Like a fire burning in the distance

The colours changed again

and 20 odd minutes later it was all over. As the saying goes Red sky at night shepherds delight, red sky in the morning shepherds warning. A little later it rained a lot

Happy Skywatch

Street View

 

 

A Couple of Squirrels

 

 Some photos of a couple of squirrels from different pats of the country

The first ones are form Wales and a tree just over from our caravan. In the tree is a squirrel

He looks aware I'm watching him

 

Even when he sits on an old log

 

 

Move on a few weeks and a church in Kidlington Oxfordshire, I spotted this squirrel run across the churchyard and sit on a tomb

 

It felt save enough to get down and did for some nuts they had buried 

Then thought they would look somewhere else. I moved off after that when it decided to move on

 

 

I'll leave you with a cropped shot of the squirrel on the tomb 

Take care and have a good week

aking Part in My Little Corner of the World  Our World Tuesday and Imag-in-ing, you can find all the links in the right hand column Take care everyone

 

 

 

 

 

 

St Giles Newington

 

 This week the Church Explorer visits St Giles Newington. This is a church I have passed by many times and quite often stopped to see if it was open only to walk away disappointed. A few weeks ago I noticed it was open so stopped to get photos of the inside. 

Walk Around the Lake

 I showed a few random photos a couple of weeks ago, these were the skywatch photo's I was meant to show that week.

The rock form the random photo blog

I cropped it from this photo taking out the sky behind

 

Bit further on we look across the lake to the shelter

 

Around the top of the lake and back to the shelter

Looking towards the hill

Looking down the lake

 

 

Then up the lake from the jetty

Happy Skywatch