Monday 18 March 2024

There's a mouse about

 

Over the past few weeks I put my wildlife camera out to get photos of what was going on at night 

 

We thought there might be a hedgehog about so I put food out hoping to get a photo of the little fellow it did not take long to catch this little fellow

I noticed he liked the food last year and after getting a piece he disappeared off into the shrubbery 

then back for more

You got to love the little fellow

 
Just one more piece


He was not the only visitor 
Take Care




 

Saturday 16 March 2024

St Johns Burford

 


This week the Church Explorer revisits St Johns Burford and updates the blog with some new photos of things I missed on my first visit 9 years ago



Thursday 14 March 2024

Kite Watch

 

Not the type you fly but Red Kites which fly over my house

Well they were not quite over my house as I took the photos with my 400mm lens and cropped them

They glide around in the blue sky

Turning in circles looking for food

Heads always on the lookout

For food

They are my favorite bird

So graceful as they fly around

 Happy Skywatch

Monday 11 March 2024

Watch the Birdie

 

Which is just what I do occasionally out of the patio doors at the bird feeder.

We get Goldfinches feeding on the sunflower hearts

One waits it's turn on the feeder

 
Two feed while a third waits on a branch

 
Two looking though I think they just dropped some seeds

 
Getting a bird in flight is not easy so I was surprised to see this in my photos

 
Looking this way

 
And that
Take Care

Saturday 9 March 2024

St Mary Witney

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Witney as beautiful church that stands at the end of a green dating back to Norman times and with a churchyard full of old headstones, tomb chests and the odd Bale Tomb


Monday 4 March 2024

Blossom time

 

As usual I was up at the crack of eggs with the dawn just opening it's bleary eyes, looking out of the kitchen window is never good, as I see things I want to take a photo of

The tree is opposite our window and the pink blossom was looking glorious

Like I said dawn was showing her bleary head or words to that effect

 A while later she was shining on the tree

This tree I spotted taking my son to work it really shone when I came home, needless to say I went straight around to get a photo. The person who lives there is my Friends Brother in law. I sent a copy to his sister and she sent it to him. The reply was he thought it was spooky because the day before he did the same thing

Glorious blossom

Near the Indian Restaurant another tree was in blossom

But this one stood out

Even the dark clouds set it off

Ok so I used this for skywatch this week but the next three photos I too today on my way home from a  church crawl 


 A swan flew right across my line of vision

 
Captured on my dash cam

 
So I cropped a photo for you to enjoy

Happy Skywatch


Saturday 2 March 2024

St Mary Charlbury

 

 


This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Charlbury a church you might recognize from the TV program Father Brown 


Thursday 29 February 2024

Blue Sunset

 

Sunday evening in mid February I spotted the glowing clouds out the front of our place

 
They had a fiery look about them

 
Turning pinkish as I turned towards the allotments 

 
Coming out wider you got blue sky mixing in

 
Wider still shows the blue and glowing sky

 
Which got darker as the glow lessened 

 
Till it was just a strip


 Turning towards the south a pink like was all you could see of the glowing sky
Happy Skywatch

Monday 26 February 2024

Minster Lovell Hall

 

I had heard of Minster Lovell Hall but it  was never somewhere I thought of visiting. Some of the guys I used to work with came from the village. Last week I was visiting St Kenelms church for my blog and noticed that Mister Lovell Hall was next door so I took the time to have a quick look around the place. Minster Lovell Hall is now under the care of English Heritage and is open during reasonable daylight hours to look around.

You literally walk out of the churchyard and you are in the ground of the hall

Wide angle view of the hall remains, the main entrance is blocked off because the ceiling is unsafe

The remaining tower near the River Windrush

The view you normally see in literature on the place

The west end of the hall

A great hall used for entertaining royalty and other dignitary's 

One of the other rooms in the place

the corner which took you to another wing of the building, the old doorway which took you to an upper floor still in place

In the foreground you can see a covered well where they would have drawn water which is a couple of foot below the grate

 
This I think might have been the entrance to the chapel 

The grand entrance with the intricate ceiling, I managed to get a photo over the top of the fence

View of the hall take with my phone

And one of the church through the ruins

Take care