St James Leckhapstead

 

I've shown this church a few times on my blog lately so if you follow the link to the Church Explorer you can see more of it and inside this week, the Church is in Leckhampstead Village near the M4 in Berkshire

Sunset Last Friday

 

Proper Skywatch Friday this week taken last Friday in the hope I made up for my effort last week

 

Friday evening I noticed this sky while looking out the kitchen window so I grabbed my phone and went up to the bathroom and took this shot

 

Adjusting a little to give more sky

 

Straight west to the sunset between the chimneys 

Then left to get a shot of the clouds

I though that was it until I got a notification from Google Photos telling me they had stylised a photo

a nice panoramic shot

Happy Skywatch

 

Lost Toy

 

 

Local Guides

 

A few years ago I joined Local Guides which uploads photo to Google maps and gives reviews about places. I upload the photos from my iphone after I have been somewhere. Normally this is a Church I visited or if I am in town a shop of scene. The reason I use the photo from my phone is because it has GPS concordance which Google Maps use to locate the place. I do not post them for any notoriety I just post them for people to see. What surprises me is the number of views I get. Today I will show you a few of the photos I post of Google Maps and how many views they have had.

You might remember this one from Friday's skywatch, it was only taken a little over a week ago and to date has had 205 views 

 
This photo of an empty seating area near Jubilee House in Cowley has had 1687 for some reason

Fabulus Flowers has has 2237 since I took it

 

Oddly though this one I took of a new part of a local garden centre got 6176 views

Jumping back to November 2021, it has had 12400 views.

 

 This shop has had 14000 odd views 

 The photo I posted on Friday of the Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery mentioned had 60000 views

But this one has had 106752 views which rally stunned me

like this one of a chapel at Horton Hospital which had 94951 views 

I never realised that this one of the local pub got 258,303 views

I'll finish with this photo of Wallingford Medical Practice which I noticed was not on Google maps so I went and took this photo, I could not believe when I looked that it had 520,865 views. todate all my photos have had about 5000000 views. I don't consider myself that good a photographer so when I found out the number of views I get, I have wonder why.

Take Care

Taking Part in My Little Corner of the World  Our World Tuesday, Imag-in-ing , InkTorrents 

 Through my Lens  and Pictorial Potpourri you can find all the links in the right hand column

 

St Lawrence South Hinksey

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Lawrence South Hinksey a church I visited during lock down last year only to find it locked at the time. This time I looked around and a beautiful little church with something I have wanted to see for long time

Some Random Sky's

 

Bit behind this week as I have not really done much about my blogging or getting new photos for Skywatch because all my family have been ill with a nasty cold virus since last weekend, so today I'm showing a few random photos of sky's

You saw a bigger picture of this on Wedensday, it's at a quarry near where I live, I really want to go there and get a photo of the dozer with my Canon EOS R6 and wide angle lens. This was not the best day to get a photo as the sun was nearly in my line of view with my iphone

This is another shot which is a panoramic to get the whole church in again using my iphone 

My wife called this tree the mistletoe tree because it is full of the stuff it is near Henley on Thames by a garden centre called Toad Hall

 

If you saw my Blog Tuesday you will know what I feel about these, I call it bluebell sky

I will leave you with this panoramic of Botley Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery Near Oxford. What I will say is this photo has had 60,000 views on Google Maps so I am thinking on writing a blog about Googel mays on Tuesday. I might add I took one photo which has had over 94,000 views

More next week

Happy Skywatch

 

The Bulldozer

 

 

Garden Bluebells

 

Bluebells I find are a curse in my Garden, not doubt many of you will disagree saying they are a beautiful flower, the trouble is the spread like the plague and I am forever trying to dig them up and bin them. If they were like the native English bluebells I would welcome them but these are Spanish Blubells  which was introduced in to England and which most of you see in peoples gardens. Look around mine and found a few different colours for you to see

These are the ones I am forever pulling up but they tend to be deep and tend to escape

 

 But for some reason we have  a few white ones which I tend to leave

Some grow on their own

 

Others mixed in

 

 I have noticed few with a pink ting

 

 

 

though I found one which looks confused 

Take Care

Taking Part in My Little Corner of the World  Our World Tuesday, Imag-in-ing , InkTorrents  Through my Lens , In Torrents and Pictorial Potpourri you can find all the links in the right hand column

St Lawrence North Hinksey

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Lawrence North Hinksey, I church I used to pass everyday on my way home from work in Oxford and always wondered what it was like inside, this week you can see it on my visit.

Always find a sky

 

I've said it before that you don't have to go far to get a skywatch photo and I thought this one looked good for this week

From the back door looking over the houses south west, the plane streaking across the sky

Similar position but I noticed the clouds looks rippled in one place

Opposite direction and the moon has risen and a dirty cloud spoils the scene

Moving south and the trees highlite the sky

Happy Skywatch