Architecture

A lovely morning up here but mist over Chesterfield meant only the keenest eyes could make out the spire of St Mary and All Saints. An example of of a national treasure resulting from some botched workmanship?

Also partly hidden and rather closer are the buildings of King Ecqbert's School.

This much more recent building will never be an architectural treasure whatever its merits inside. It is one of the remaining blots on the landscape now reduced from three to two after the caravans have been removed from Whitelow Farm. Its crime is the unrelieved straightness of the profile and the distracting reflective quality of the roof. It simply does not fit in with its surroundings.

Lessons might be learned of natural architecture up here. 

Sphagnum moss is surely an inspiration for modernist schools of architecture, and, scaled up, great possibilities for fun for school pupils.

Other familiar sights on these mornings look for a different kind of perfection.

Meanwhile the avant garde shows another way.

A cool night, a bright morning, dew everywhere and spiders too.