Pips Bench

 

Sorry I missed posting this week as I was away and did not get a chance to do anything before going but I always find something for Skywatch

 

My wife and I took a walk up Aberedw hill and as normal I stopped to take in the view

 

The track through the quarry on the left used to be a hard climb over a rocky surface but over the winter it was smoothed out, bare in mind I have been coming up here for 20 odd years and struggled up to now because the going is so much easier

 

We took a different track when we got further on and came across this bench

 

It's one of the best ones I have come across and was placed there in memory of Pip Morgan who died of cancer and was a local postman who was a very keen cyclist 

 

I like to thing his friends remember him when they ride past

 

The view from the bench was worth the effort

 

It sits at a cross roads of paths cyclists use

 

 

 

It has become our new go to place and I sit here and take in the view and remember a guy I never met.
RIP Pip

Happy Skywatch

St George Kencot

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St George Kencot a church which gave much more than I expected

 

End of May Sunset

 

Only a couple of photo's this week of a sunset I captured out the front of our house after noticing the sky from the kitchen window

It looked quite spectacular

 Same again only this time with a google effect on it. The sky did not last that long so I never managed to get any more photos.

Happy Skywatch

You can never have enough Roses

 

Well in my opinion you can't

 

Veilchenblou is out at last and really showing off

 

I really look forward to seeing this one

 

This is Blue for you

 

The mock orange and Rosa Califorinca mixing with Veilchenblou, sit here with a coffee and the scent is overpowering at  times

 

Californica and Veilchenblou

 

 

Looks stunning

 

I forgotten the names of the all 

 

But they are beautiful

I thought I had killed this one called Felicity perpetua

looks amazing

Take Care

St Peter Alvescot

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Peter Alvescot a very nice church over the west of Oxfordshire which I unfortunately found locked 

Last of May Skys

 

 First of all take a look at this photo in the link on Geograph it was taken back in 2008 and back then I knew it was only a mater of time before what happens in the next photo

 Just over a year ago in Feb 2023 I noticed they had cut a new entrance off the roundabout

A week or so ago I stopped off and too this photo of a sweeping road to a new estate

 

The first show how should now be open

 If you go back to the photo in the link you should see the field as it used to be, I know which I would rather have

On a brighter note a day or so later I took this sunset from my front garden

Happy Skywatch

St Gwendoline Talgarth

 

 This week the Church Explorer visits St Gwendoline Talgarth a rather nice church restored in Victorian times I have see in passing many times only this time I stopped off on my was back from a previous church