Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 18th March, 2025)

Beautiful and well composed, I particularly like the double yellow lines, something to please everyone.

'For oft on my couch I lie
In vacant pensive mood
They flash upon the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude
And then my head with pleasure
fills
And dances with the daffodils'

- Willy Wordsworth - (1815)

If you continue up that road and go through the traffic lights it takes you down to Shevington. Just thought I’d mention that.

Very nice indeed, Colin.
Lovely and clean.

It would still be a beautiful church
with out the spire. I can understand people wanting it to be repaired though. Is the spire accessible ( up to a point!!) or part way? I wonder what secrets it holds. Nicely composed photo. I remember passing this way last Summer.

Yes, Irene, three clocks. I hope you won't find my post presumptuous for letting you know before you ask that they only had three clocks because the clergy at that time said nobody on the graveyard side would need to know the time.

Really nice picture . Many think the view has got better since the big tree blew down a few years ago . Recently , I've noticed lots of Jackdaws on the lawn near the Sarcophagos ( blooms in the tomb ) . Sort of mini Ravens on Tower Green .

Veronica, you can Combe up a winding stone staircase up the tower to the Bell Ringing Chamber located just below the Spire. There is a photo of this that I posted on PAD 1st October 2024

I went up to the bell-ringing tower when they had an open day and videoed what was going on.
When I was at St Marie's school on Almond Brooke Road, I remember two Standish lads had trained Jackdaws, they would follow them to school and fly down to them at playtime.

Yes thanks Colin I’ve just looked …how could I forget..I didn’t realise it was so wide. Very interesting.

Whenever I go the Lakes I always visit William Wordsworth ‘s grave in Ambleside …
“ Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass of glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find
strength in what remains behind.”
Ode.” Intimations of Immortality” from Recollections of Early Childhood….

Thankyou Mick O'Shevy....I'm surprised you used that name after saying yesterday that you were sick of seeing it on here. Far from thinking you are presumptuous, I am always happy to gain new knowledge, especially of local interest, so Thankyou. A lovely photo, Colin. I love churchyards, especially on a sunny day and with daffodils blowing in the breeze. We usually go down that lane the other way, so don't get that same view of the lychgate. That really is a pleasing picture.

Great display of yellow heads within the gravestones Colin, it's a pity that Daffodils don't last very long as they certainly herald the arrival of Spring, and if they could blow their trumpets, just like those Carlton De-Luxe Daffodils in Shevington do, I'm sure they would all join in blowing a fanfare.

Poet, the Jackdaws may be pecking up moss in the lawns in which to line their nests, and also blocking up someone's chimney.

Passed St Wilfred’s yesterday Colin on way back from picking several boxes of Fiddlers Lancashire Crisps up that Mick likes,noticed all the scaffolding up.

One of the most fascinating facts regarding Wordsworth is that one of his classmates at Hawkshead was Fletcher Christian .
Both were young radicals who welcomed the French Revolution .
' Bliss was it that dawn to be alive , but to be young was very heaven ' ,
Wordsworth of course came to renounce the Revolution as the terror unfolded while Christian seemingly died for the cause .

Colin you get some good angles on your photos,I’m just thinking of Irene as watching Mary Berry in Whitby on channel 2.

You learn something every day ..I didn’t know that Poet.
I wonder how many descendants there are on Pitcairn Island from Fletcher.

John, (Howfen), thankyou for thinking of me! (I was watching Last of the Summer Wine). I love the Wordsworth quotes from Veronica and Poet today.....what beautiful words.