St Edmund’s church spire, Crickhowell, pointing towards a gap in the clouds above the Black Mountains, Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons.
Author Archives: Calmgrove
Blooming
Self-seeded red poppy and blue cornflowers the wrong side of a raised bed. Crickhowell, Powys.
Green
Green door … to a garden. Tywyn, Gwynedd.
Peonies
The delicate unfolding beauty of peony buds set off by wallflowers.
Rust
Rust stains and stonework by the promenade at Tywyn, Gwynedd.
Dodo
Bench end featuring a dodo,. Worcester College chapel, Oxford. The now extinct dodo not only features in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland but is also celebrated in Oxford’s Natural History Museum.
Inside
A study in textures: looking out of a sash window with shutters from inside the Georgian House Museum, Clifton, Bristol.
Dome
Ceiling and dome of Worcester College chapel, Oxford, completed in 1770.
Observer
Young observer looking down through the glass well into the lobby, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.
Lane
Street art in Leonard Lane, a narrow thoroughfare named after a former medieval church, which follows the line of the old city walls of Bristol, now leading past Centrespace gallery and studios to St John’s and the last remaining gateway to the medieval city.