Oct 2, 2019
The interior of St. John the Baptist, Edlingham, Northumberland.
Shot on film through an Olympus OM10.
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The interior of St. John the Baptist, Edlingham, Northumberland.
Shot on film through an Olympus OM10.
A window in St. John the Baptist, Edlingham, Northumberland.
We arrived at this beautiful little church with its squat Norman tower about mid afternoon on a beautiful week day. There were no other cars nearby and the church sits in the midst of fields.
As we stood in the graveyard admiring the grounds and the outside of the church we became aware that we were not alone. On the far side of the graveyard, on the other side of the church, there was a man laying the grass with a flat cap on his head, and a full brown tweed suit complete with plus-twos. He was propped up on his arm and with his other hand he was petting a cat.
He never once looked up or over at us when we arrived or left, and it was as if he was some ghostly apparition of a gent from another era enjoying the poetry that is a quiet and empty country church yard.
I still think on him often.
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