Missing Posts

 

I've been a bit lax at posting on a Tuesday lately  no reason other that I was doing other things and felt I had nothing to show but I feel I should show a few photos from Clyro a village I visited to see a church there called St Michael & All Angels which was the first church a Rev Frances Kilvert was sent to, some of the places you will see were there in his time and the scene would have been similar

The entrance to the church, the war memorial would not have been here at the time

Kilvert lived in this house

A plaque beside the door tells you when

The front door he would have used. The house now houses an art gallery

Across the churchyard these house would be something he saw

This is another house he visited its now called the Baskerville arms it was the swan in his time. If you wondered where the Hound of the Baskervilles came from it was from the family name who lived in the manor not far from here.

This must have been the old post office, the building would have been here but what was then I could not tell you

This view looks back up the road where he lived towards his house which you can see on the far right

This is now the village hall, it looks like it may have been the school

Looking out of Clyro past the hall

This was leads out of Clyro towards the village of Painscastle

Take Care

St Michael & All Angels Clyro

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Michael & All Angels Clyro which is part of the Clerics trail, you could say the starting point if you are a follower of Francis Kilvert. I felt the church was a bit of a shrine to him

The moon at Sunset

 

Another two photos again this week which I took on different days in June both were taken at around sunset

 

This one I took out the front of our house looking towards the allotments, the afterglow from the sunset setting off the crescent moon above it was 22:15

A couple of nights later I managed to get out and take this shot of the afterglow at 21:14 

Happy Skywatch

Two Welsh Chapels

 

This week the Church Explorer visits Two Welsh Chapels. One I had seen before and wanted to stop off the other I passed on the way to visit a church. On my way back I stopped off at both of the for a few photos. Normally I would write about them individually  but decided the one post would be OK 

Blue View

 

 Only two photos for skywatch this week from a morning walk we took a month ago

After reaching the gate I took this shot of the surrounding hills and blue sky

As we walked back this view from near a tree looked good to me

Happy Skywatch

The Rat

 

Rats are not my favorite creature especially when I find them feeding on the fat balls I leave out for the birds so I decided to set a trap for it. I found out where it lives which I think is under my shed. I also caught it on my wild life camera

 

The trap was left there for it to get used to. The white powder is baking bicarbonate of soda, I read somewhere it was not good for rats so left a flowerpot tray out with some mixed with cheese. The tray dissipated along with the powder and some must of got spilled when it was taken

 

It seems interested in the trap, must smell the old peanut butter that was in it, the branch is off a bay tree though it does not seem interested in that either

 

Gets fed up so turns away

 

and heads back under the shed

 

I bated the trap and had the camera going at night and this little mouse comes along and sniffs almost setting the trap off. How it got away with it I do not know because the video shows it running off into the wood store behind. That is one lucky mouse.  Since then I have not seen the rat on the camera though something set off another trap and ran with it till it fell off by a fence nearby. There are also a few cats come sniffing around as these have been caught on the camera as well.

 

St Peter Broughton Poggs

 

This week the Church Explorer visits  St Peter Broughton Poggs a wonderful old church that looks like it is still in the middle ages 

Different Outlook

 

These photos were taken the day after I first found Pip's bench up on the hillside

On climbing the quarry I looked back over the valley to the hills where the weather was very overcast with low cloud

On the hillside I looked out over the campsite where a few people could be see in the camping field

Taking in a wider view shows the cloud covering and the sun fighting to be seen

 Further up looking back told that rain threatened. It did though only a drizzle as we walked on then back to our caravan. Next week the photos are from a different location taken later in the day

Happy Skywatch

The Wrens Nest

 

My post with the critters you might have taken some notice of the little wren chicks looking out of the nest. Well I set up a wild like camera and here are some photos of when went on.

You can see them in the photos which for my liking was a bit far away at first

So I moved the camera much to my wife horror as she thought I had put it a bit close

The chicks were poking their heads out in this cropped photo

as it got dark one of the parents came along with food

they were hungry little things

Getting fed

still hungry

I got my camera out with zoom lens and took a few more photos

There are always two heads poking out, I counted three in there when they ducked back in

I found this one a bit odd as the parent came along and did not feed them

They were actually encouraging them to fledge and take flight. This one did come out and then went back in. The video I took on the wild life camera shows the parent feeding again but after that the chicks must have fledged as when my wife checked when she went to the greenhouse they were gone. I had hoped the camera would have caught this but they are quick so I missed seeing this.

Take Care

St Peter Filkins

 

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Peter Filkins a very nice Victorian church in this small village 

Chapel Sky

 

For the last few weeks I have been showing sky's from the same day only take in different places. This week will be the last from a couple of places I stopped off at. On my way to revisit a church to update some photos I passed by a couple of chapels, I stopped off at them on my way back to get photos.

This was the second chapel which I visited the sky behind enhanced it

The view over the cemetery

This looked even better from the perimeter wall

Wider view

There was a seat nearby so it made a pleasant place to be

After leaving I stopped off on a hillside that overlooked the Wye Valley

Looking further up the valley, in the distance is the Brecon Beacons

 

Below me the village of Erwood

The road that twists down the hill

Finally looking across the valley

Happy Skuywatch