Steeple

I had a late afternoon walk up Worsendale after the rain cleared through, and after yet another trip to the recycling centre.  This photo looks into the sunlit York Plain with the shadowed side of St Edith's spire in centre frame.  The sun was about to disappear into a bank of cloud on the western horizon.

The photo shows how much standing water there is on the flat farmland below.  There has been so much rain lately. The afternoon shadows also pick out the ridge and furrow remnants of mediaeval ploughing in the small pasture field on the right.  Fortunately no-one would consider ploughing these marginal sloping clayey fields today, but in the days of ox ploughs, this land was perhaps more workable than the soils of the Plain that would at that time have been waterlogged and poorly drained.