Words can travel across thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be beautiful gems, as lovely as flowers.
Thich Nhat Hahn
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10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2017
Whatever our mind constantly dwells upon, that we become.
Patanjali
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 5th 2017
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Walled Garden – Wallington
22 Comments CherryPie on Feb 1st 2017
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Head Gardener’s House – Manderston
Situated next to the marble dairy featured in a previous post is the Head Gardener’s House.
Beside the dairy is the ornate Scottish seventeenth-century style Head-Gardener’s House of 1897, directly inspired by Argyll’s Lodging in Stirling, and surrounded by its neat garden behind a fine wrought-iron gate. The high status of the head-gardener in the estate [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2017
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Manderston Formal Garden
On the south side of the house, Kinross designed four formal garden terraces still planted in Edwardian style. A geometric terrace is now stocked with floribunda roses and hostas, To one side is a small grass terrace, edged by four large stone vases. Below it, through a wrought-iron gate with griffins adorning the piers, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2017
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 15th 2017
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 5:22 (KJV)
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 8th 2017
