Archive for the tag 'Attingham Park'
Filed under Out & About
Attingham Park
I invite you to join me at Vision and Verb, where you can find out more about one of my favourite places to visit when I want to spend a relaxing hour or two.
2 Comments CherryPie on Oct 29th 2011
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise.
Book of the Arda Viraf (Circa 6th century)
17 Comments CherryPie on Oct 9th 2011
Filed under Gardens
PhotoHunt – Yellow
A good opportunity to post some flower pictures.
As if I needed an excuse
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
24 Comments CherryPie on Sep 23rd 2011
Filed under Gardens, Out & About
The Song of the Daffodil Fairy
Information on daffodils from the Attingham Park Estate:
Our wild flower daffodil is considered to be a native plant although it may have been introduced two thousand years ago by the Romans. In the late sixteenth century, John Gerard, the herbalist, regarded daffodils as growing throughout England. Today our wild daffodils only exist in [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
Cedars of Lebanon Revisited
The Lebanese Cedars are magnificent, I can remember the days when I could walk beneath their boughs and enjoy them in there glory. Now they are fragile and can only be viewed and enjoyed from a distance…
It reminds me very much of my first visit to Stonehenge where I was able to look up [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2011
