Church Explorer 2024 review

 

This week the Church Explorer  reviews the churches he visited in first half of 2024 with the second half next week

Glorious Sunrise

 

Happy New Year  to everyone I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are now ready for more SkyWatch photos. For me November brings some of the best sunrises you can see and I was lucky to notice this one through the shutters of the bedroom.

 

But I poked my head out of the bathroom window to get this one of the glowing sky

 

It just got better when I zoomed in a little

 

By the time I went outside the sky was turning pink

Happy SkyWatch

Merry Christmas

 

 Merry Christmas everyone 

 

St Peter Alvescot

 

This week we return to St Peter Alvescot for the last blog of the year as I managed to organise a visit to this beautiful church to get some photos of the inside which did not disappoint. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas & New year

November Morning

 

Only a couple of photos this week that I took of the red sky one November morning 

 

This time from our bedroom window, I could not help notice the pink shining on the shutter and this is what I noticed when I looked out

 

Zoomed in a little

 

Google worked their magic with this one

 

May I take this opportunity to wish you all merry Christmas and to say thank you for visiting and all your comments this year

Happy SkyWatch

Painted Stones

 

On a visit to the local library I noticed some painted stones on the librarians desk, they looked so nice I had to get a photo of them.

Christmas time with the decorated tree and snowman

A snoozing fox is so lovable

 
This one I presume is a colorful bug

But I did love the Guinea Pig

  Take Care

All Saints Middleton Stoney

 

This week the Church Explorer visits All Saints Middleton Stoney a really nice church in the grounds of Middleton Park. After a failed first attempt to visit I managed on the second and found it worth the effort.

October Sunset

 

While waiting for some chips from the local chip van one Friday evening I noticed the sunset and as my phone was in my pocket it was rude not to capture it.

It was the reflection on the clouds that I noticed

Zooming in gave a different effect to them

Even Google give it an  effect

Looking the opposite way the sky was lighter

The clouds soon went leaving an orange colored sky

Which then turned pink

Happy SkyWatch
 

More Snow

 

Some more snow scenes from back in 2010, these were taken a couple of days later when the sky was clear.

 The icicles were on next doors house

 

Snow covered road

 

To be truthful an old road now disused and it is only a few miles from where I live

 

The snow covered track out of the village,

 

The pylons were built back in the late 1950's early 1960's as I remember them being built. You can just make out people sledging on a hillside which is what I was doing there in 1963 

 

This looks to the village down the track which was a roman road at one time

 

Boat on the bank by the Thames, the water is not frozen as it is running quite fast

 

As I cam back to the village a different way the sun was going down

Icicles 

Take Care

St Mary Lower hayford

 

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Lower Hayford a church which I found more interesting that the one I previously visited