Gargoyles on Biscathorpe's abandoned church

After another hearty and healthy breakfast, G and B took me to Biscatorpe. We dropped G at a footpath across the fields which he would follow for a couple of miles to meet us at the tiny abandoned church at Biscathorpe. While G walks, B always takes her sketch book with pencils and paints and spends her time sketching whatever comes to mind. She often chooses churches and their environs as they have so many details in both the buildings and the natural history close by.

This was only the second time I'd used my new camera and lens, so I was partly learning the complexities of the controls as well as checking on the results as far as I could on the rear viewfinder. I hadn’t brought a card reader so I knew I wouldn’t see the results on a computer until I got home.

The church was abandoned some time ago although it is not particularly old. Probably built as a small church for the workers on the local estate, which itself has become unsustainable in modern times. I’ve shown a small selection of the gargoyles and I particularly liked the sheep’s face. I’ve also added a few extras to show the church itself as well as its locale.

Barbara and I walked to the small ford we’d driven through and I tried to photograph some little egrets that were busily flitting about near to the beck. As we approached they flew away and some minutes after I spotted them in a tree upstream beside the beck and close to a bridge carrying a footpath over the beck. If you look closely you might see three egrets on the top right hand branches, as well as a bevy of crows.

From this same position I turned around to photograph the beck flowing away downstream towards the ford about a hundred and fifty yards away. This image also gives a good idea of the rolling agricultural landscape of the Lincolnshire Wolds, the small hills of the area, which are distinctly different from the flat lands which comprise most of this county.