… at Attingham Park
The pumpkin patch has now been harvested and the cabbages look delicious.
As I started my walk the rain set in so I wasn’t able to take many photos. Back at the car, after my walk the rain eased off to almost nothing!
Archive for September, 2024
I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
Matthew 25:35
13 Comments CherryPie on Sep 29th 2024
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Rome 2024
Basilica San Lorenzo Lucina
Located in the Rione Colonna, San Lorenzo in Lucina is one of the oldest churches in Rome. The building stands on a domus, probably owned by Lucina, a wealthy Roman matron who allegedly founded an “ecclesia domestica”, a place for worship inside a private house.
A second theory connects the name of the basilica to an [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 26th 2024
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Rome 2024
Near to the Spanish Steps
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 25th 2024
Filed under Anecdotes, This & That
Autumnal Attingham
It was a welcome joy to be able to go for a walk after my afternoon volunteering at Attingham Park. It was my first walk at Attingham for several weeks. Due to planned surgery mum has had several medical appointments each week and a stay in hospital after the surgery. Mum is home now but [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2024
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The Spanish Steps
Spanish Steps, staircase in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna that climbs the steep slope between the plaza and the church of Trinità dei Monti above. It consists of 135 steps and was built between 1723 and 1725. Though it was funded with a bequest left by a French diplomat, it was named for the Bourbon Spanish Embassy to the Holy See [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2024
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Khalil Gibran
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 22nd 2024
