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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:36:00 +0000

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust… wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.

The Bhagavad Gita

One Misty Moisty Morning…

CherryPie — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:16:04 +0000

…when foggy was the weather

The Saturday jaunt to visit my Aunt went well and as you can see we were treated to some fantastic scenes on our outward journey. The SatNav took us on the route that skims past Jodrell Bank which is normally a spectacular sight. Today, however the radio telescope was shrouded by fog and invisible (or beamed up by aliens…).

On arrival at my aunt’s we exchanged Christmas presents then chatted for a while before heading off for a carvery lunch at The Sheldon Arms. After lunch we returned to my Aunt’s house and chatted some more before preparing tea, which after yesterday’s dramas was well received.

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:21:43 +0000

The remoter and more general aspects of the law are those which give it universal interest. It is through them that you not only become a great master in your calling, but connect your subject with the universe and catch an echo of the infinite, a glimpse of its unfathomable process, a hint of the universal law.

Oliver Wendell Holmes. JR (1841 – 1935)

I recommend you click on the picture it looks much better when viewed large.

52 Photos Project – Gallery 37 – Softly Fade Away

CherryPie — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:45:46 +0000

This week’s prompt was “Leaving one year behind and going into the next“.

The last few years have always presented difficulties for me even though I have always cast out the old year with it’s problems and tried to bring in more positive outcomes for the incoming New Year.

This year for some reason I felt quite different over the Christmas/New Year period and I still feel quite different despite some complications and irritations that re-surfaced over the Christmas period and into the New Year.

This photo was taken on a failed mission to deliver Christmas presents three years ago on Christmas Eve. It was the last Christmas I spent with my father before he passed away.

The memory of visiting that lake shrouded in mist always brings a smile to my face

More photos on the theme can be found here.

Eglise du Dome…

CherryPie — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:45:24 +0000

…shining through the mist.

From PARISINFO:

The dome by J. Hardouin Mansart, built between 1679 and 1706 magnificently crowns the building. It is the finest dome ever built in France and its 107-metre-high lantern was regilded in 1989 for the bicentenary of the French Revolution. Twelve kilos were needed for this operation. From the outside you may admire the facade with its two orders (Doric and Corinthian) of architecture. Statues of Charlemagne and St Louis by Coysevox and N Coustou decorate the niches of the lower levels; on the level above stand _Strength_, _Justice_ and _Temperance_ with _Prudence_ by Coysevox. Inside, beneath the dome is the recently restored large fresco by Charles de la Fosse depicting St Louis handing his sword to Christ. The Dôme Church became a military burial place. It houses the tombs of Turenne, Vauban, Foch, Lyautey as well as those of Joseph and Jérôme Bonaparte. In the crypt itself is the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte I fashioned out of blocks of red porphyry standing on a socle of green granite from the Vosges region.

This photo was taken from the viewing platform on the first level of the Eiffel Tower on a misty morning.