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The Sweetness of Friendship

CherryPie — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:46:56 +0000

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

Abbey House and Gardens

CherryPie — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:05:39 +0000

Abbey house stands on the sight of St Mary’s Abbey. It was built about 1750 and originally faced the gardens to the rear. The present castellated front was added after the widening of Broadway in 1771. Benedictine nuns, fleeing the disturbances of the French Revolution, made their homes here in the 1790s. The house now serves as the official residence of the Mayor of Winchester.*

The gardens with the guildhall to the right:

The statue of King Alfred as seen from the front of Abbey House:

*From a signboard next to the house.

Lest We Forget

CherryPie — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:00:41 +0000

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon

PhotoHunt – Yellow

CherryPie — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:41:11 +0000

A good opportunity to post some flower pictures.

As if I needed an excuse

For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.

PhotoHunt – Dusty

CherryPie — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:15:21 +0000

Dictionary definition: (of a colour) tinged with grey; pale: dusty pink

PhotoHunt – Miniature

CherryPie — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:56:21 +0000

For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:11:50 +0000

We go through life seeing things not as they are but as we are, and love is the only lens available to straighten out our vision of the world and offer some hope of understanding.

From 1000 paths to love by David Baird

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:30:39 +0000

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
Robert Leighton

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:34:57 +0000

Learning without thought is labour lost;
and thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

The Wrestlers

CherryPie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:33:12 +0000

The sculpture that I posted for my Saturday PhotHunt is entitled The Wrestlers and was quite fascinating to look at.

The Wrestlers depict two heroic male figures, one black, one white, at the peak of athletic prowess pitting their strength and skill against each other. This work presents a multitude of different viewpoints and engages the spectator with the relative positions of the intertwined figures.

This picture of one of the hands shows the minute attention to detail.