Not something you expect to see in the middle of August on your summer vacation!
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 17th 2022
Today’s walk wasn’t quite what I had in mind when I set off. I planned to visit a secret garden, but decided to walk to the Peace Gardens first where I lingered on a bench watching the world go by.
Whilst I was taking photos near to the Peace Gardens a gentleman noticed me and told me about the previous uses of some of the buildings nearby. I had no idea that one of them used to be the fire station or the local butchers shop. There is so much interesting history within the town of Wellington.
I arrived at my planned destination, the secret garden of Wellington station to find a red warning sign ‘Staff Only’. I was a little confused because there was a fence and a gate with the warning sign where previously there had been no barrier. The temptingly open gate to the secret garden was behind the barrier. The garden has recently been transformed from rustic to formal leaving me to wonder why access was denied.
When I got home I found that the opening of the garden has been delayed until October…
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2022
The sun had got its hat on, a perfect excuse for me to visit the walled garden at Attingham Park. I arrived in time for lunch which I enjoyed sitting outside in the sunshine. After a leisurely stroll around the walled garden I took the pathway to the mile walk, another favourite location of mine within Attingham Park.
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2022
After driving my mum to a couple of appointments I walked to my local Parish Church to see floral tributes to Queen Elizabeth II that had been placed on a commemorative stone in the Garden of Rest. The garden was created in 1953/54 to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the stone marks the occasion.
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2022
After visiting the Flaxmill we weren’t ready to go home so we set off towards the mere at Ellesmere, deciding to stop at the nearby Colemere. We enjoyed a pleasant walk around the mere which is surrounded by mature woodland.
Cole Mere was formed at the end of the last Ice Age. 10,000 years ago. It is a kettlehole; which are created by large chunks of ice left behind the main glacier. These melt more slowly and leave steep-sided, deep hole in the ground which subsequently fills with rainwater to create a mere. Unlike lakes, meres have no natural inflow or outflow of water and are fed by rainwater from their own mini-catchment.*
*from a sign next to the mere.
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 12th 2022
