"On The Right Track" January Photography Walk explored the area around and inside All Saints Church Brixworth, part of Brixworth village and views overlooking the Brampton Valley Way. You can find out more about the Church here
"perhaps the most imposing architectural monument
of the 7th century yet surviving north of the Alps"
-- Sir Alfred Clapham
photograph by Lorraine Dziarkowska
It was a cold, crisp Sunday afternoon, there had been a hard frost earlier
photograph by Meriel White
The allotments in December during scoping walk
and the afternoon was suffused with a wonderful light,
frozen droplets, icy gems, glittered on
vegetable leaves in the fields and on the allotments.
Andrew Rushton led a group of photographers from various parts of the county,
photograph by Meriel White
who walked, talked and captured moments.
photograph by Sonia Hawes
January Walk in Brixworth
Sun, strong for January, with
surprising warmth
though foggy breath from
chatting mouths
hangs in the shadows.
Golden sandstone glows in the
yellow light,
berries - left by the birds
after the bumper harvest -
bright against the clear blue sky,
a vapour trail shows white
against the blue.
frost edges the grass blades in icy spikes,
but the rape growing in the sun,
shows diamond drops containing rainbows in its leaves.
In the hedgerow a strange sight comes into view,
the twisted trunk of an
ancient hawthorn
grown around the old wooden
fence rail so completely
the rail passes through its centre.
A robin sings, a blackbird
bounces across the allotment
a blue shed another jewel in
the mass of brown and green.
Another shed with peeling
paint and a bundle of long,
bamboos leant against the mottled wood
nestling in the brown earth
and tawny foliage
could be the subject of a Stanley Spencer painting
Inside the church a musty smell overlaid with incense,
coloured light spilling
through the stained glass
onto the stone floor and exotic patterned carpets.
Sonia Hawes
photograph by Sonia Hawes
Andrew (ex RAF and a man on a mission)
made everyone laugh with his comment
"don't look at that now, you can see it on the way back"!
There was a great sense of stretch and release.
photograph of Carole & Charlie by Meriel White
Peaceful contemplation and relaxation
photograph by Meriel White
photograph by Lorraine Dziarkowska
There was also coffee and a nip of whisky after our explorations, much conversation, laughter and a clinking of mugs in order to to embrace the new year. Smiling faces looking forward to the walks to come. January Flickr set is taking shape!
