Friday 24th May 2013
We've arrived back home earlier this week after visiting my daughter and family in Alcester Warwickshire. One of the reasons for our visit was the Food Festival which was held in the High St. last Saturday and what an enjoyable day it turned out to be. I haven't taken any photos of food festival because I was concentrating on making a video of the event and trying to do both, falls short of the standards that I try to aim for.
On a couple of days we enjoyed two walks into the lanes and backwaters "Shakespeare Country" of this lovely county and what was noticeable was that spring was at least two weeks advanced even though we'd only travelled 150 miles south.
The Bluebell display in Oversley Wood near Alcester was as good as it gets and on the walk from Alcester to Stratford-Upon-Avon we found our first flowering orchids of the season in a small woodland coppice on the Heart of England Way which winds its way through Warwickshire.
Here are a few photos of this Warwickshire landscape which is so different to the wilder Pennine Landscapes that we're more used to.
The Bluebells at their best in Oversley wood two week in advance of our Lancashire Bluebells
The start of our second walk (about 10 miles) along the Heart of England Way
The Early Purple Orchid
Some woodland Grasses or Sedges that I'm not sure of
This old house is over 1000 years old and the owner (a historian) showed us round it some of the outer walls are still "Wattle and Daub".
The King's Head in the village of Aston Cantlow
Along the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal
This Swan is on its nest alongside a busy garage workshop on the outskirts of Stratford-Upon-Avon
The Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Haven
We've arrived back home earlier this week after visiting my daughter and family in Alcester Warwickshire. One of the reasons for our visit was the Food Festival which was held in the High St. last Saturday and what an enjoyable day it turned out to be. I haven't taken any photos of food festival because I was concentrating on making a video of the event and trying to do both, falls short of the standards that I try to aim for.
On a couple of days we enjoyed two walks into the lanes and backwaters "Shakespeare Country" of this lovely county and what was noticeable was that spring was at least two weeks advanced even though we'd only travelled 150 miles south.
The Bluebell display in Oversley Wood near Alcester was as good as it gets and on the walk from Alcester to Stratford-Upon-Avon we found our first flowering orchids of the season in a small woodland coppice on the Heart of England Way which winds its way through Warwickshire.
Here are a few photos of this Warwickshire landscape which is so different to the wilder Pennine Landscapes that we're more used to.
