Mark Richards
@fellranger.bsky.social
Pen artist, Guidebook writer & Presenter of the Countrystride.co.uk podcast
View from Rook Lane in Micheldever, Hants this morning.
Toddington church spire, a rocket reaching for the heavens.
Stanway church tower and porch with Christ in niche above.
Golden honey-toned oolite ashlar walls surround a door of Stanway church.
Newish footpath sign, replacing one wrecked by an indiscriminate hedge trimmer.
Looking up the trunk of an aged Scots Pine in Hampshire.
Hawkstone above Chadlington, name inspiration for a now widely distributed beer brewed at Bourton-on-the-Water.
St James, Cutsdean = Code’s valley”. Cutsdean Hill was the original Code’s Wold = Cotswold.
Another great purchase this time a very modest 50p from the same shelf in Brampton.
1938 first edition purchased for £3 this afternoon at Book Corner in Brampton.
Stayed a few nights chilling at Lusigny sur Barse & parking up on the side of Canal de Morge. Had a lovely walk up to Lac d'Orient which feeds into the Canal. All of this was free...🚐💜🇫🇷 xx
Berry’s tearoom Walton, a popular refreshment halt on Hadrian’s Wall Path.
My roots constantly float in my artistic brain with a yearning to produce a sketchbook of special places that define the broadest sense of The Cotswolds. Hence the idea that lurks just below the surface in this mock-up cover. Definitely not coming anytime soon.
I'm getting excited about #Fungitown next weekend, the perfect reason to #VisitHay I'll be in Hay Castle, illustrating some of the #fungus that'll be foraged, & selling cards & #botanicalillustration prints & originals. There's so much going on, come and visit!: www.fungitown.org.uk/programme-1
Late silage being baled at Hynam Shield in Geltsdale this evening.
Great Gable from Great End, with Styhead Tarn prominent below.
New view in our garden opened up since a massive Leylandii was felled last week. The blue sky looks ever more blue. The sunny trees in the middle were invisible before.
Wall the height of the original Hadrian’s Wall bounding the High Close arboretum.