Flower Festival.
8 Jul 2007 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatThis is a bit pic spammish. Every year, in the first week of July, there is a Churches Flower Festival on the island. About 15 churches take part each year - most churches only doing it every two or three years, as organising it is quite a major feat, and then there need to be people 'on duty' in each church all the time that they are open - 8 hours, minimum, for 8 days.
I usually try to visit a few of the participating churches each year, but this year I didn't get to many - one without my camera, and two with.
The theme this year was "Set My People Free" - all the churches follow this theme, but interprete it as they will. This theme was chosen to fit in with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain.
The Methodist Chapel in the village where my mother lives is a simple building - these pictures are all taken there and show how beautiful plain windows can be made to look -
This window's theme is slavery in the Bible - 'He sent his slaves out into the fields to receive the master's share of the Harvest' Matthew 21,34.
The next has as its inspiration 'Joseph sold into slavery' - I love the use of the multi-coloured cloth -
The children also did their bit - this is 'The Plagues of Egypt' by their Sunday School - I loved all the folded paper frogs and locusts etc. -
And this window is entitled 'Africa' - there were beads, and small African animals as well as the mask which you can see in the centre.
Bride Chapel also did a very nice lunch in their hall!
I also visited the Church at Patrick - their displays were based on the same ideas - slavery etc. - I didn't think they were quite as good as Bride, and less easy to photograph. But in their church yard is a most unusual gravestone - look -
I have never seen anything quite like it. The white crystaline stone is common all over the island, and I have seen it embedded in garden walls and such like - but never used in this way. I was quite taken with it.
Today it has actually been dry and sunny all day - the first for ages - some of my plants in the garden have suffered a little from all the rain - buds have simply rotted on one or two of the fuchsias. I was able to sit out and read for a while - tomorrow if it is fine I will take a few pictures out there for the record!
I usually try to visit a few of the participating churches each year, but this year I didn't get to many - one without my camera, and two with.
The theme this year was "Set My People Free" - all the churches follow this theme, but interprete it as they will. This theme was chosen to fit in with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain.
The Methodist Chapel in the village where my mother lives is a simple building - these pictures are all taken there and show how beautiful plain windows can be made to look -
This window's theme is slavery in the Bible - 'He sent his slaves out into the fields to receive the master's share of the Harvest' Matthew 21,34.
The next has as its inspiration 'Joseph sold into slavery' - I love the use of the multi-coloured cloth -
The children also did their bit - this is 'The Plagues of Egypt' by their Sunday School - I loved all the folded paper frogs and locusts etc. -
And this window is entitled 'Africa' - there were beads, and small African animals as well as the mask which you can see in the centre.
Bride Chapel also did a very nice lunch in their hall!
I also visited the Church at Patrick - their displays were based on the same ideas - slavery etc. - I didn't think they were quite as good as Bride, and less easy to photograph. But in their church yard is a most unusual gravestone - look -
I have never seen anything quite like it. The white crystaline stone is common all over the island, and I have seen it embedded in garden walls and such like - but never used in this way. I was quite taken with it.
Today it has actually been dry and sunny all day - the first for ages - some of my plants in the garden have suffered a little from all the rain - buds have simply rotted on one or two of the fuchsias. I was able to sit out and read for a while - tomorrow if it is fine I will take a few pictures out there for the record!
