There and Back

Cathedrals of UK The intention is to visit and photograph all of the Engand ones - at least to start with! Here are a few I have visited to date. Canterbury Cathedral St Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, arrived on the coast of Kent as a missionary to England in 597 AD. He came from Rome, sent by Pope Gregory the Great. It is said that Gregory had been struck by the beauty of Angle slaves he saw for sale in the city market and despatched Augustine and some monks to convert them to Christianity. Augustine was given a church at Canterbury (St Martin’s, after St Martin of Tours, still standing today) by the local King, Ethelbert whose Queen, Bertha, a French Princess, was already a Christian.This building had been a place of worship during the Roman occupation of Britain and is the oldest church in England still in use. Augustine had been consecrated a bishop in France and was later made an archbishop by the Pope. He established his seat within the Roman city walls (the word ...

We started the year with a cold front sweeping across the country and, along with the severe frost, large amounts of snow in the North and Midlands and across Wales as well. We, luckily, only had the frost and ice! A local walk was in order, and here are some of my images taken. Across the footpath in the local fields and all the vegetation had a real layer of ice crystals on it. Closer up you can see how pretty it made everything. Even a dead sunflower! Patterns of ice on a puddle Water gushing from a stream with pretty patterns of ice forming behind it. And then one of our neighbor's fence had this pattern on it. Next are some images taken in Christchurch Park, in Ipswich. Again, a lovely morning but very cold with everywhere covered in frost. The grass in front of the War memorial, and nearby, is white. While this log looked as if it was watching me!  (Perhaps the frost affected my brain!) Mr squirrel didn't seem much bothered as he sat and chewed his food. The pond was froz...