Saturday 28 January 2012

Welshpool canoe club, river severn

Herring gulls  in the  park lane school field
Are these Crystals mits, if so she can pick them up herself.
 





Mallards on the severn river occasionally like to have a slurp in one of the pools  they have made where they get fed by the good people of Newtown,

Offspring of the mallard her parents are Mallard and white tufted duck 


photo taken on a frosty January morning


Members of the welshpool canoe club







shot taken from Dolerw bridge

last one out 




Monday 23 January 2012

A rainy day in wales

  Two lone oak tree's on Llanmerewig hill  as seen from the tesco filling station,
  LLANMEREWIG, a parish in the district and county. of Montgomery; on the Oswestry and Newtown railway, adjacent to the river Severn and the Montgomery canal, 3½ miles NE by E of Newtown. Post town, Newtown. Acres, 978. Real property, £1,340. Pop., 148. Houses, 28. The property is divided among four. A Roman camp is at Giants Bank; and traces of a Roman road exist. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £133. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is good.




location map -- click to enlarge



Dead tree near Highgate farm Newtown Montgomeryshire Powys SY16 3LF

Farm on the hill opposite Gethin,

A tranquil setting our old Farm   Gethin Farm  SY16 3LP
a soaking wet day  near the Gethin lane turn off,

Fachwen pool in a few months  the frogs will be on march  or leap, to the pool

I was going to see an old friend and take some photos from her farmhouse  too wet so  another day god willing,


St Gwynog's Church, Aberhafesp 


blackbirds nest in the hedge opposite the Church.


The graveyard awash with Snowdrops,



Its hard to imagine why this tree stump was left like this on such a busy road


One reason for this round about trip with my son, I was hopping to see some new lambs but I did not see one  !

Nother dead oak tree near St Gwynogs Church,

these two houses were my last build before I retired with slipped discs built from cutting the  first sod  to last roof tile on my own,  both are pre form with brick cladding, Mr & Mrs M Hughes  home is 7 bedroom, on stepped 3 floor. and Mr &mrs Penningtons is a large 4 bedroomed house on two floors

Its strange how  people spend a fortune on building their home but disregard perfectly good outhouses.

A rainy day in wales



Dead tree near Highgate farm Newtown Montgomeryshire Powys SY16 3LF

Farm on the hill opposite Gethin,

Our old Farm   Gethin Farm  SY16 3LP