Happy Birthday Agatha

 

 

Wallingford Sky

 

Some Views of Wallingford from the end of July when we took out pup there in the bus

First stop was to see this lady it's her birthday on the 15th September

 She sits over looking the kinecroft and most likely visited it when she lived nearby in Winterbrook whatever Wallingford claim

The boathouse now a restaurant but it did used to be a boathouse where you hire boats when I was in my youth 

I loved the bright color of this narrowboat and the fact it is called Backward Circles 

I will leave you with Wallingford Bridge and the grey sky's overhead

Happy SkyWatch 

The cigar tree

 

I posted the photo last week showing a cigar tree in the churchyard and I said then I would show more photos

 It looks quite big in this photo

From a different angle less so but there is a large shrub behind it

One of the flowers, I'll have to go back when it is in flower

 And the seed pods that are growing on the tree which is what caught my eye in the first place

Take care 

 

Helicopter sky

 

I'm catching up a bit with my photos I take for SkyWatch as I'm in August. This was early this month when we were taking the dog for her morning walk. While crossing a field we hear a helicopter hovering nearby, this is whet happened next and what it was doing

It flew past and turned

Coming nearly over us

Then turned again

Hovered a while

 

Tilted to get abetter look

It was the national grid surveying the electric pylons and lines.

Happy SkyWatch

 

Simpsons Clouds

 

Quite often you look up the fluffy clouds and think they look like the ones you see on the Simpsons.

Might be wishful thinking with the Simpsons but I do like cotton wool clouds on a blue sky

 Happy SkyWatch 

 

Couple of Sunsets

 

Noticed the sun setting one day back in April so though get up to the bathroom  

Yep worth doing

 Quite a beautiful sunset

Happy SkyWatch 

St Michael & All Angels Great Tew

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Michael & All Angels Great Tew which is set back off the road in the grounds of the Great Tew Estate. the church has a lot of history surrounding it and has a stunning effigy in the chancel   

The Swans

 Update on the swan nesting

 Last time I looked and saw the swans nesting, on my return the other day I walked past the nest and my heart dropped as I noticed one solitary egg, I though they had deserted the nest

A few yards further along and I saw the swans with cygnets

All seven of them

The parents keeping an eye on them all the time

The cygnets stayed close

Mother and young

Take Care

 

St Mary the Virgin Croperdy

 

This week the Church Explorer  visits St Mary the Virgin Croperdy a place well know in the UK for the Fairport Convention Festival that happens. The church is most likely less well known unless you are a church crawler like me

The last of February

 

Well it seems I am still going through my backlog of SkyWatch photos and have now got to the last ones I took back in February. The saying Red Sky in the morning comes to mind with this one and it was a beauty 

Looking out of the bedroom window really did show a glowing orange sky

 Looking out the bathroom window really did show the glow

 Shame the day did not stay that way, later on we had a hale storm, this was the bathroom window.

Happy SkyWatch