Pictures

[Sibling DavidH]

Lazy old Mrs H down in a local lane, while I've climbed all the way up the bank to a gate and found it was the wrong one!  Might as well take a shot...

[Sibling DavidH]

More flying cephalopods at the kite festival.

[Sibling DavidH]

We recently visited Deerhurst, Gloucestershire.  The church is of unknown age - there is proof that it was already there in 802.  On general historical grounds it's unlikely to be much earlier than about 680.  Of course there was a Celtic Christian church on the site before the Saxon one, and from the position near the Severn it's a fair guess that there was a pagan religious site there before that.  Much has been changed and added since but a lot of Saxon work stands unaltered.

Here's the west wall of the nave, of the earliest Saxon phase.  Call it 1,300 years old and you won't be far wrong.  I have seen even older Saxon work in the UK, but only in two places.  Ignore the pointed arches in the N and S walls - they're Early English, put in say 800 years ago.

[Aggie]

Ooh, keep lens open for Green Men if you spot any!

[Sibling DavidH]

Here's one on the West Door of Leominster Priory, taken by one of our participants whom I was tutoring in photography.  I'll dig out some more from my architecture photos; I must have quite a few.

[Aggie]

Lovely, thanks!

The only place I've yet to find them in Calgary is on our sewer manhole covers (foliate heads, not the disgorger type like in that photo).  I'll have to snap a photo. 

[Sibling DavidH]

This one's on the S door at Kilpeck, of which I posted a pic a while back:





This is at Abbey Dore, not my photo.  It was a now-displaced ceiling boss and was originally painted.

[pieces o nine]

great pics! please post more! 

[Sibling DavidH]

Thank'ee, Pieces!  This one's not a Green Man; we visited a friend yesterday in Wimborne Minster (town), Dorset and of course we looked at the Minster (church).

Here's Mrs H's photo from the SE:



Here's looking past the lovely Early English nave to the Norman crossing tower and beyond into the Choir and Chancel (various ages).




And looking straight up the lovely crossing tower:



No Green Men here, but I'll find some more for Aggie soon.

[Swatopluk]

What about this classic masterpiece?

http://www.wicherngemeinde-frankfurt.de/typo3temp/pics/65a74443e9.jpg

[Sibling DavidH]

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[Sibling DavidH]

Mrs H and #1 daughter between them created this for me.

[Griffin NoName]

Great stuff!

[pieces o nine]

Great sweater!  (jumper? what is the correct term for men's soft stretchy knit top garment where you are?)


I can't do embroidery anymore without getting 'claw hand', so I began dabbling in knitting with these in Denver. Much easier for aging hands to hold, and you'd have to work to *not* get even stitches.


I feverishly perpetrated a plain black sweater for H last winter which (bless his heart!) he carefully packed and actually took home, although he never wore it here. 

I've been perfecting my Doctor Who-length scarves and long sweater-sock-slippers for four years, and finally had an epiphany about how to painlessly turn a heel last weekend. As a result, I have a truly nice looking pair of slippers for my mom this Christmas, made from this super-soft variegated 'chinchilla' yarn.

On the other foot, mom's feet are larger than mine and I'm not sure how much this might shrink if she uses hot temps on washer & dryer, so I added 6 rows to the size that fits me. Yarn is so thick, each row is, like, 12mm!!!! So when I tried them on the final time -- yarn flippers!

I refuse to give up, though!

Knitted secondary gifts for all until I master this, no matter how many years it takes...

[Sibling DavidH]

Here's another Green Man for Aggie.  This one's on a misericord at St Lawrence's, Ludlow.  That's only about half an hour away from us and has excellent gastro-pubs, so I'll pop up there soon with the excuse of taking a good photo of it.  This is off the net - someone told me about it yesterday.