south downs, southease

Today my sister and I took a walk on the South Downs and along the River Ouse. Down chalky paths fringed with cow parsley, past fields of yellow rape, crossing the meridian from the western to the eastern hemisphere, visiting a pub halfway for some cooling refreshment, passing Virginia Woolf's house at Rodmell and then the smell of seaweed along the Ouse, watching the flight of egrets and herons and listening to the song of skylarks and  reed warblers.

Also we visited ancient Southease Church, beautiful in its simplicity. The extra is a wood carving "Fragment of the Crucifixion" by Tom Hall.