Five minutes away

Five minutes walk from my front door, and there are fields:

 

 

Village church in the distance - same spire that can be seen from my back garden:

 

 

The river:

 

 

 

Church closer up:

                         The pocket park, aka the old churchyard - suitably spooky for you ?

 

The alleyway leading back home: 

 

 

Blackberries are starting to ripen - picked a lunchbox full today, and plan to pick many more over the next days and weeks.  As I still have so much jam left from previous autumnal preserving frenzies, this year most of the brambles will be turned into wine, or just open frozen to be used in cooking over the coming months.  Look out for autumn preserving recipes starting soon.....