My trees are now up and decorated a little earlier than usual leaving one less thing to worry about. The Christmas day and Boxing day arrangements are also finalised so everything is eventually falling into place. This left me with Sunday free to chill out. I took the opportunity to visit Attingham park decked out as it would have been at Christmas during the 1920s.
Christmas, as the 8th Lord and Lady Berwick would have done following their marriage in 1919. We have delved into the stores to find the Christmas decorations which are now adorning the dozen Christmas trees around the mansion. There is an amazing 15-foot tree in the Picture Gallery which is so big we had to use scaffolding to decorate it! Our lovely flower arrangers have also been “decking the halls” with festive greenery and flowers.
Lady Berwick loved parties and opening up her home for people to enjoy and this is what we want to evoke this year. To give the mansion the festive atmosphere of a 1920s Christmas we have brought out some of their personal clothing for you to see.
It was lovely to see the hall decorating in this way and tree in the gallery is amazing. I liked the little brown parcels underneath, not at all like all the glitz we see today. On the way home I took a slight detour via a garden centre to try and get a present, but came away empty handed apart from a few things for the Christmas festivities. My Mum came round later and we enjoyed a nice roast beef dinner with a nice glass of red to accompany it.
All in all it was a good weekend 
Tags: 1920s Christmas, Attingham Hall, Attingham Park, Christmas, Decorations
There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.
Heinrich Suso (CA. 1295 – 1366)
Tags: Attingham Park, Cherie's Place Thought, Flower, Walled Garden
This weeks prompt was:
What do you wander past in the mornings as you go about your day?
And, when the light changes from day to dusk and descends into night,
what beauty catches your eye?
What do a morning and evening of the same day look like for you?
This was another interesting challenge, there is so much I could have explored with this idea. But I have my own challenge with daily photography, I am not allowed a camera at work and that also means I am not allowed a camera in my parked car at work. This means that I am not able to take photos on my way too and from the office, I miss so many wonderful opportunities…
At this time of year I can get great photos in the morning before I leave for work but when I return from work it is dark and my options for creative photography are limited. But today is Saturday and I am at home which means that I can enjoy and photograph ‘My Oak Tree’ and the sky behind, a source of ever changing beauty throughout the day
More photos from the Morning::Evening gallery can be found here.
Tags: 52 Photos Project, Cherie's Place, My Oak Tree, Oak Tree, Sky
The Fontaine Saint-Michel is located in Place Saint-Michel. The statue above the fountain depicts Archangel Michael and the devil, sculptured by Francisque Joseph Duret. In the foreground there are two winged dragons that were sculpted by Henri Alfred Jacquemart.
Those are just two of the nine sculptors whose work is featured in the fountain.
Tags: Archangel Michael, Devil, Dragon, Fontaine Saint-Michel, Fountain, France, Paris, Weekend away
