The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St Augustine
Archive for the tag 'National Trust'
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Leuven 2015
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 19th 2015
Filed under Hay-on-Wye 2015, Holidays, Science & Nature
The Old Oak Tree
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 19th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Hay-on-Wye 2015, Holidays
Hay-on-Wye – Day Two
After breakfast, which was cooked to order, we headed off into town to visit one of the bookshops that we had missed the previous day. The bookshop was due to open at 10am but we arrived in town before this so we headed off to photograph the castle. This led to us finding another interesting [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jun 9th 2015
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 7th 2015
Filed under Gardens
Bodnant Garden
Bodnant Garden is famous for its laburnum arch which should be coming into full fruition any time now, although the cold weather has delayed the development of the flowers this year. So it is appropriate that I share some photos of the arch and the garden from my visit in 2010.
Marvel at plants from [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on May 23rd 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Out & About
In Search of Bluebells
The weather yesterday was lovely and sunny so we set off on a bluebell hunt. We settled on Packwood House and Garden as our destination. Due to a hold up before we set off, we arrived at the property rather late (just in time for lunch) and were told that there were no tickets left [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 5th 2015
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 12th 2015
