I have always loved seeing lichen on stone walls and in churchyards but until I read Katherine Swift’s The Morville Year I had no idea how fascinating it really is:
A lichen consists of not one but two organisms living in symbiosis: a fungus, capable of withstanding extremes of temperature and drought but unable to photosynthesis, and an alga, which [...]
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The Biology of a Lichen
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2013
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2013
The prompt for this weeks gallery was ‘roads i travel’.
I always try to find the road that leads me to light, understanding and happiness.
Finding that road is always a challenge…
More inspiration can be found in the ‘roads i travel’ gallery.
15 Comments CherryPie on Dec 21st 2012
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The East Parterre Garden
The East Parterre garden was visible through the windows of the ballroom:
The focal point when viewed from the house was a fountain of Flora, goddess of spring and flowers, whose statue crowned the composition. She holds a cornucopia or horn, intended to jet water, and round her are four tritons (fish-tailed humans) blowing jets [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2012
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South Parterre Garden
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 13th 2012
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Perseus and Andromeda Fountain
The spectacular Perseus and Andromeda fountain has been restored to full working order, it is reached via a flight of steps from the south parterre.
The theme of the central sculptural group, which was carved from Portland stone by John Forsyth, is the classical myth of Perseus and Andromeda. Perseus having obtained the head of the [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Oct 11th 2012
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Faded Glory
Following the fire the garden ornaments were auctioned in the autumn of 1938 and the house was sold the following year to Mr Banks at a fraction of its cost. In 1954 the house was bought be an antique dealer from Straford-Upon-Avon. He stripped the house of anything of value and sold them. [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2012
