Geese

Over the last few months, I have been taking and collecting a lot of late summer/ early autumnal photographs, and I mean a lot. 

Each time I upload more photos, I promise myself that I will put together a full photoblog post, but I don't, and the volume of photos makes it an increasingly daunting challenge. Just crown me Queen of Procrastination.

Today, as I opened my computer photos files to upload yet more photos, this photo greeted me. It's not one of those I took today, but it called as loudly as the geese did at the time, so it's earned a post all of its own.

Grantchester Meadows and Back Again

As you may have gathered from earlier posts, despite living in the Cambridge countryside for almost thirty years (and that's a long time), there are a number of local places that I haven't visited and things that you are supposed to do in this neck the county that I haven't done. Maybe proximity breeds contempt, or, because it's so close, you think you can do it at any time and then don't.

A very Cambridge thing to do (for undergraduates, tourists and poets) is walk from Cambridge to Grantchester across Grantchester Meadows to have tea at the Orchard Tea Garden. I've had tea (or other liquid refreshments) in the tea garden on a number of occasions (check out my June 2024 visit to Grantchester, for example), but I've never done the walk, until this June that is. I'm a great believer in "better late than never".

So, here are some of the views on the day I walked from Cambridge to Grantchester across Grantchester Meadows, and back again.

Arriving at Grantchester

Teatime companion at the tea rooms

Adult swan looking for its head

The entire family looking for lost heads

Walking companion for part of the return journey

March From The End of March to the End of May

On the last day of March I drove to March (in the fens) to see the roof beam angels of St. Wendreda's Church. I also drove into the town centre, where the infamous town geese (and a swan) took my photographic fancy.

Coming back home, over the next two months I wrote two poems about St. Wendreda's and did nothing with the photos (or this blog).

Finally, just before the current month of May ends, I have uploaded my March photos. These are them (or at least a selection of them). I think the poems are better than the photographs, but there is going to be an even longer wait before the poems see the light of day.