{"id":2150,"date":"2022-10-13T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2022-10-13T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:09:48","slug":"in-the-shadow-of-the-mower-and-amys-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/10\/13\/in-the-shadow-of-the-mower-and-amys-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Shadow of The Mower and Amy’s Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the Shadow of The Mower and Amy’s Cross<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The shadow stopped me, the shadow of Amy’s cross and the mower who worked on by in the shadows of the tree. A lady walking her dog stopped to say hello, it was not her dog she said, she asked if I had a dog and I said I used to. I remembered coming home and hearing my childhood dog had died. I think a churchyard is the place to remember those who we have lost, even if they never saw the churchyard we are remembering them in<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Mower and Amy Ranyard’s Cross at St Peter and St Pauls Church Caistor Lincolnshire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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W<\/strong>hen I take a photograph that really interests me I often write a little haiku. I write them in three lines of 5\/7\/5 syllables. T<\/strong>hey do not have to rhyme, they do not have to describe the photograph, they are simply what the image led me to write. I<\/strong> only allow myself 60 seconds to write it. It is about being in the moment of seeing the photograph, just as my photographs are made in the moment of seeing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

thinking of autumn
brown leaves crackling in the breeze
the shadow of warmth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I could not see a date of Amy’s cross, but I wondered if it was the Amy on this census. At first I thought the census suggested her mother was single and bringing up 2 year old Amy and a new born in 1879, but then saw the occupation of the mother……..the wife of a joiner absent searching for employ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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