Fungi at Fawsley Hall

This time it was sheep droppings rather than cow pats that were hosting the toadstools in the meadows around the Hall. Lots of colourful Waxcaps - yellow, pinky mauve and scarlet caps were found, also inkcap species and other small toadstools. I particularly liked the bowler hat on one of the tree trunks.

Frampton Mists

A few images before and after the mist cleared at Frampton. The slow shutterspeed birds were all taken at 1/10th sec but were all very different depending on the speed and the direction of the ducks' flight.

Peregrine at Frampton Marshes RSPB Reserve

Today we visited Frampton Marshes Reserve near Boston Lincs and were very pleased to get good sightings of a Peregrine. We were watching the flocks of ducks leaving the water and land en masse and then spotted a Peregine just landed with a Teal which it proceeded over the next 30 minutes to pluck and eat. It moved the carcass once and then finally flew off with its crop very full. Great to meet up with Peter and Lynne and be introduced to 'their' wonderful reserve..

Halloween at Tattershall Castle and Lincoln

Tattershall Castle has its origins in either a stone castle or a fortified manor house but was largely rebuilt in brick, and greatly expanded, by Ralph, 3rd Lord Cromwell, Treasurer of England, between 1430 and 1450. A great place to explore especially with added Halloween features

The National Centre for Craft and Design at Sleaford

The NCDD is showing a textile exhibition by Michael Brennand-Wood called the Seeds of Memory. The 3-D textile pictures are very impressive but I liked best the way the shadows of basically round and spoked circles on wires produced shadows that looked liked beetles, butterflies etc. In the corridor of NCDD is a textile model of Sleaford Church with the real church in the background.

Isaac Newton's Home in Lincolnshire

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor on 25 December 1642 and returned here in 1666 when Cambridge University closed due to the plague. He performed many of his most famous experiments, most notably his work on light and optics. This is also said to be the site where Newton, observing an apple fall from a tree, was inspired to formulate his law of universal gravitation. A very dark house to photograph but here some cameos from his study/bedroom and the scullery; also an exterior view. We intended to lunch at Belton House nearby but there were so many cars we abandoned that but did photograph a very obliging deer in the Park before heading for Sleaford.