Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
This weeks prompt was:
Harmony :: Symmetry :: Flow
When objects or events come together,
ebbing rhythmically.
Harmony makes sense.
It feels right.
The pieces balance each other.
Like peas and carrots,
coffee & cream,
black & white.
The Harmony gallery can be [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2013
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb for a little bit of Shugborough history and its famous connection with photography.
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2013
Filed under Art, Heritage, Out & About
From the guide book:
There are two theories concerning the Cat’s Monument’s existent. One tale suggest it is a decication to the ship’s cat on the Centurion who kept the ship free of vermin during its lengthy circumnavigation. Another story claims it is a memorial to a family pet a Persian Cat by the [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2013
Filed under This & That
Black triangle
Pink triangle
Green triangle
Red triangle
Blue triangle
Lilac triangle
And they wore the yellow triangle
When first they came for the criminals I did not speak
Then they began to take the jews
When they fetched the people who were members of trade unions
I did not speak
They took away the Bible students
Rounded up the the homosexuals
Then they gathered up the immigrants [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2013
Filed under Art, Gardens, Out & About
Shugborough Estate features several interesting monuments, one of which is The Ruin.
The Ruin is situated by the River Sow, facing the formal gardens. Part of its feature is a thoughtful druid, he seems rather ghost-like in my image.
9 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2013
Filed under Science & Nature
Often when reviewing photographs that I have taken I see many photographs within the original photo. When I reviewed this photo I couldn’t see any way to better my original capture. I liked it as it was! So I didn’t work on any alternative views…
It seems from my comments thread that I may have been [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2013
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
The Blue Bridge from my previous post and this Red Bridge both link to the island garden and arboretum. The Shugborough guide book provides information that would be missed on a casual glance:
The island garden is flanked by the original course of the River Sow on the side near to the house and the [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2013
