St Michael Leafield

 

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Michael Leafield a very nice Victorian Church with some beautiful stained glass

Red Sky

 

I took the dog out for a quick walk by the lake one evening in July and this is what I saw a beautiful sunset

I went up the hill a little to get a better view

The cloud on my right looked like a luminous fish chasing something

The sky well that was something else reflecting in the lake

Just beautiful

Turing around to go back and the cloud over the hill had a pink tinge

The tint dissipated as I walked on

 But one last look at the sunset was needed

Happy Skywatch

Rejected photos

 

I took quite a few photos for use in the flower show but only a few made it to the show, here are some of the ones I did not use. The subject was round tings so I thought flowers, in the end I did not use them

Echinacea

Daisy

These are leeks that have gone to seed

I did not feel the photos looks right

artichoke

Dandelion

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St Mary Shipton-under-Wychwood

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Shipton-under-Wychwood a church which dates back to 1200 and has a 15th century pulpit

 

Wispy Clouds

 

I notice the clouds when I went out the back of our house around midday back towards the end of June

Looking west

Looking over towards the north

West over the top of our house

Looking east

Back south west

 Finally to the west

Happy Skywatch

The Ox Trail

 

The Ox Trail is an art intuitive that can be seen around Oxfordshire, at the end the Ox's are auctioned off in aid of charity it was something I thought I would miss until I went to collect my new glasses in Wallinford

On my way to the opticians I passed this shoe shop that had closed, it closed down back in April and I had not known this. I remember coming here with my mother for shoes when I was a small child. A sad day for the town when it closed it's doors

On my way back to the car I had quick walk around the square and spotted this in one of the windows

This is the information about it

Quite striking in blue

I did not stop there I waled around the town to see how many were around

The window reflecting messed up getting a good shot of this one

Another in a shop on the arcade

On the corner of Waitrose they had three

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St Simon & St Jude Milton-Under-Wychwood

 

 

This week the Church Explorer visits   St Simon & St Jude Milton-Under-Wychwood the second of four churches I visited for my blog, this one was built in the 1800s so not as old as the others I visited

More Paragliding

 

Now I forgot about these photos and only just realized I took them the same day and last weeks. Anyway I had taken my 400mm zoom with me to our caravan and noticed they were out paragliding again, this time I felt a bit more prepared for the event

 

They were taking off the hillside about a mile or so away

 

 

There were quite a few in the air
 

 

This guy looks like he is flying in a boat

 

This one reminds me of a shoe

He was turning to begin landing in the nearby camping field

 

Getting lower making his decent

 

at times he seemed to rise

 

then turn again for the final approach

 

I waited around for a few more like this one to come and land but they seem to fly off in another direction or landed later. I will have to see if I can get some more photos on a better day. This one was grey.

Happy Skywatch

The Village Show

 

Last week I spent getting prepared for the village show sorting out what I wanted to enter and some photo boards for a group I was helping out with.

One think I was entering was the Cucumber section where you had to submit two well this is what I picked that morning, the longest the curved one was 18" long. We picked the best two out

 

The show tent before everyone arrived

 

These were a few of the food and drink places getting set up

 

 The local volunteers help people around the village with food and shopping and run a food bank once a week, this all came out of Covid

 

This is where I helped out it was mainly about the Village archive and history

 

It got busy later in the day

 

The tent was busy most of the time when Judging finished 

 

Some of the items on show

Vegetable selection, I can see why it won

 

I did like this little fairy garden 

 

I did not do as well as last year but I did win again with the cucumbers 

And a first with one of my photos. My wife got a couple of firsts and a second with her drawings and knitting and my son got a second with his small table he made very happy with the results.

But I do wonder if I would have got any where with this cucumber I found in the greenhouse the next day, Think it would have done well in the oddest shaped vegetable

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