yorkshire holiday
YORKSHIRE ROADTRIP DAY 5 – ON OUR WAY HOME
digital scrapping, weekend walk, yorkshire holidayYORKSHIRE ROAD TRIP DAY 4
digital scrapping, weekend walk, yorkshire holidayToday was Mark’s treat a visit to The Yorkshire Air Museum near York, it is the largest independent air museum in Britain.
All the time we were there nostalgic music played through speakers, you could almost imagine the ghosts of airmen looking on smiling just before the klaxon sounded and they raced across the grass to climb aboard their planes. It is hard to imagine what it must have been like, most of the young men were younger than my 24 year old son.
YORKSHIRE ROADTRIP – FRUSTRATION
digital scrapping, weekend walk, yorkshire holidayI know that sounds dramatic but it’s photographic frustration, I love architecture and I so admire photographers who seem to get that ‘just right’ shot. So imagine my frustration on, when looking at my shots of Fountains Abbey I was not happy. It’s that age old dilemma, that photography can catch a moment a fleeting nano second but sometimes it can’t quite get the essence the wow as the eyes take in a miraculous sight.
So Fountains Abbey near Ripon. When we told people that we were going to Yorkshire nearly everyone said ‘you must go to Fountains Abbey ‘ and it was on our to do list. I must admit it was a dark and dank day so conditions were not perfect and I wasn’t feeling too brilliant and had I felt a bit better we would have explored more, but just to walk amongst the ruins if this beautiful place was enough.
So a bit of history
‘Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately three miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries‘.
Henry VIII was responsible for the destruction of many beautiful monastic buildings and what he didn’t destroy Oliver Cromwell had a good go at polishing off the rest !
I’m quoting here from Wiki ‘
In 1986 the parkland in which the abbey is situated and the abbey was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It was recognised for fulfilling the criteria of being a masterpiece of human creative genius, and an outstanding example of a type of building or architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates significant stages in human history.
That sums it up really, the abbey is in a valley and as you walk down you get tantalising glimpses and as you round the corner the abbey is strung out in front of you and my, amazing.
I had to put the shot of the Pheasant, they were everywhere and the way they run so funny.
Linking up today with Helen at A Weekend Walk
MONDAY MUSING A LITTLE BIT OF THIS AND THAT
digital, MondayMonday, yorkshire holidayDo you get sidetracked when you on the computer ? Do you start off with the intention of finishing an art piece then discover yourself moving around music files and tidying up iTunes. Then you look at the clock and find that the time you have allocated for computer is over ? Yes that’s me..
So, a quick post and some images that I am playing with for PhotoArtistry , if you haven’t come across this course check it out HERE it’s brilliant.
ROADTRIP YORKSHIRE—– WHEN WORLD’S COLLIDE PART TWO
weekend walk, yorkshire holidayI’m on a roll at the moment making scrapbook pages. It’s a great way of recording our trip and showing as many photographs as possible without boring the pants off people !
So impressions of York, mixed actually. I’m sure it is the same all the world over, beautiful cities just sinking under traffic, the car is king no getting away from it and some cities deal better with it than others. We took a bus tour to get our bearings and to catch sight of some places we would miss. And I was sad, a beautiful Roman, Medieval city being slowly ground down amongst traffic, people and some fairly atrocious 1960’s architecture. But every now and again a glimpse of what it used to be like.
This is Clifford’s Tower. there has been some sort of fortification here since 1068. From the 15th and 16th centuries it fell into disrepair and has been used as a defence against the Roundheads in the English Civil War when York was for the Royalist cause in 1644. More recently it was used as a prison.
Some closups of carving on the outside of the Minster. Glorious, there has been some sort of religious building here since 627 !!! Although it has it’s fair share of fires, burglary and in the 19th century bankruptcy .
Linking up today with Helen at Inspiration Pavilion for a weekend walk.
Supplies by Agnes Biro, Cottage Arts and Rosey Posey…..