Sunday morning doodling in Cheshire...

Just a little doodling for a concept, to build a dry stone wall for a friend of mine.  I had the idea of putting the name of his house into the dry-stone matrix as it was being built, - so I drew a sketch to explain myself, and how the wall might look together with his house behind it in the distance, upon the hill / edge....

The beautiful old horse chestnut tree had recently been trimmed and coppiced, so I just had to draw its imposing limbs still stretching out, like a yawn from its' winter slumber.  The twisted trunk must be at least 200 to 300 years old, and there are signs of the tree's regeneration and re-birth many times...

So much history, the drystone wall abuts onto the famous "Watling Street", immediately in front of it to the left, although this stretch is now discretely hidden, as a very minor 'B' road towards the old roman settlement at Chester.  The house wouldn't be there almost 2000 years ago, but maybe the remnants of the wall was!  I can almost hear the Roman Legions marching past!  (But the tractor tyre imprints on the edge of the puddle on the lower right bring the drawing back to modernity)...