PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge After a long walk from Settle taking in Watery lane, Lodge Lane, Lambert Lane, Stockdale Lane, Attermire, Clay Pit...

click photo to enlarge Quite a few types of stone are used in the gravestones of Lincolnshire churchyards. The twentieth century shows the...

click photo to enlarge In the main the builders of Britain's medieval parish churches used local stone. Sometimes this was very well ...

click photo to enlarge I was reading a piece recently wherein a writer was arguing that all mankind's actions are motivated, in some ...

click photo to enlarge A few weeks ago I was well into the third day of cutting an area of rampant ivy from a vertical-lap wooden fence w...

click photo to enlarge Standing in Quadring churchyard the other morning, my fingers chilly on the cold metal of the camera, I started to...

click photo to enlarge Today's photograph was taken about seventy yards from and a few minutes before the shot in the previous post. ...

click photo to enlarge I visit a lot of churches and churchyards and see many gravestones and memorials. In Britain the earliest in paris...

click photo to enlarge The gravestones, tomb slabs and funerary monuments of English churches range in date from the twelfth century to...

click photo to enlarge "My greatest fear: repetition" Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss author and critic I find it hard to unde...

click photo to enlarge The word "avenue" in English originally comes from the French avenir and Latin advenire , to come to or...

click photo to enlarge Ever since July 2010 I've used Blogger's in-house hit counter to analyse the traffic that comes to this b...

click photo to enlarge The earliest device for keeping down the grass in graveyards was the humble sheep. They are still occasionally used t...

click photo to enlarge There's a lot to admire about an overgrown churchyard. To start with there's a certain harmony between a plac...

click photo to enlarge The rules regarding what is permissible in terms of a gravestone or other graveyard memorial seem to differ from chur...

click photo to enlarge On 30th June this year English Heritage published a report on the state of Britain's 14,500 places of worship th...

click photo to enlarge One of the pleasures of stopping by a small country church that you've never visited before is the possibility of...

click photo to enlarge Which bird is the most disliked in Britain? I was pondering this thought the other day when watching a couple of amor...

click photo to enlarge By my calculation this area of Lincolnshire has had only one day since 18th December when snow hasn't covered the...

click photo to enlarge Before you read on - if you were intending to do so - try and make out what this gravestone once said. My attempt at ...