The Hardy Ash

 The Ash tree known as the Harley Ash in Old St Pancras church has come down in the recent winds.  

The Hardy Ash

I photographed it in 2012 and again yesterday.

 

Nearly Christmas

 Almost Christmas.  Presents all purchased, cards written and sent, the tree is up and decorated.

It will be a new experience for Christmas this year and Christmas Day will be my 1000th post on the blog. Lots of things have changed in 12 years.

Willow Gone

 Well the tree surgeon has been and the fallen willow is gone. 

Storm damage

 Since I moved into this house there has been a rather magnificent willow tree at the bottom of the garden. Sadly with the storms of the last couple of days it is no more. The trunk appears to have rotted and it has broken at the roots. Over the next few days I will have someone in to remove the remains. 

Boxing Day

 Very quiet and nowhere to go.

Bauble

 Just a detail of the decorations on my tree this year.

Christmas windows

 Damp and dark today so the Christmas tree in the window is looking good.

Birch tree

Well this should have gone out yesterday but somehow failed to launch.

The birch tree on the way to town keeps giving images.

Sunday

Easter Sunday and it was spent in. the garden.

Knapps

Had a good walk around the village including a full circuit of the Knapps

New Year, New Decade

So time rolls on as the year and the decade turn, life is going in new directions.

Today was a trip to Sissinghurst. Cold dark and very wintery.

Kentish sunshine

4000 Years and Counting

The Yew tree in the churchyard at Llangernyw is possibly 4000 years old. The churchyard also contains the graves of some family members from the family tree of my wife.

They used to be tenant farmers locally, at the start of the 20th century.

We still have the old kitchen table from their farmhouse and the old family story is, that at some point they lost the farm and did a midnight move with all their possessions that they could carry, roped into the upturned table that was sitting on a cart.

Grain and an Old Location.

On a sunny Sunday we needed to get out for some fresh air.
This time it was back to Grain for a walk along the sea wall.

On the way back we stopped of for a picture of my favourite skyline.

Olive tree

Again another picture from the daily commute.

Lower Higham

These trees and the horizon line here are somewhere I have photographed on several occasions.

Wakehurst Place

Wakehurst Place is the outpost of Kew Gardens set in West Sussex. We had a trip down and a nice walk around the gardens.

Reflections

I got out for a short time with my camera and went down to the old fish ponds. It is still very wintery but as the water level is high I found some nice refections to photograph.

Poplar trees.

These trees are near Cliffe in North West Kent. Over the past few years I have visited these trees many times, as they always produce an interesting image.