After a day of rain the skies brightened, the clouds parted and it turned into a nice summer’s evening.
So – time to get the bike out and go for a ride; this time over to Stonesfield which is about ten miles west of Oxford.
This is somewhere I’ve been sketching before as the village still retains some of its older buildings in an ‘Old Quarter’ around Boot Street.
To the west the countryside opens out to more rolling fields – and there is a view back to the village (below). With this particular field already harvested, I took a little stroll, set up my sketching stool and started drawing.
Here is my sketch below.
That was about as far as I got on this occasion but it was nice to just be out on a warm pleasant evening, with most people somewhere else and just a gentle breeze blowing across the fields.
Time to move on and to go have a quick look around the nearby villages of Fawler and Charlbury before heading back.
Below are some links to some previous posts from this area.
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