Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Archive for February, 2019
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 17th 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Shibden Mill 2019
Travelling Home…
… from a mini break, I was treated to this delight.
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 15th 2019
Filed under Holidays, Hurley 2017
Sending You My Love…
…on Valentines Day xx
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 14th 2019
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
Arundel Castle Gardens
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 13th 2019
The Rose Garden occupies the site of a medieval bowling green. It is enclosed by yew hedges and laid out with formal beds of Rosa Rugosa Alba, Rosa Winchester Cathedral, Rosa Alfred Carriere and Rosa Isaac Perrier. *
*From the Arundel Castle guidebook
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2019
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
Arundel Castle – The Library
The Library is the principle survivor of the 11th Duke’s work and is one of the most important Gothic rooms of circa 1800 in the country. It is 122 feet (38 meters)long, entirely fitted out in carved Honduras mahogany and treated as if it were a church, with slender clustered columns supporting a ribbed vault. [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2019
All mankinde is of one Author, and is one volume; when one Man dies, one Chapter is not torne out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2019