Archive for the tag 'National Trust'
Filed under Out & About, Science & Nature
100 Photos 79 :: The Light
8 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2011
Filed under Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
Robert A. Heinlein
12 Comments CherryPie on May 15th 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
Filed under This & That
The Song of the Bluebell Fairy
My hundred thousand bells of blue,
The splendour of the spring,
They carpet all the woods anew
With royalty of sapphire hue;
The Primrose is the Queen ’tis true
But surely I am King.
Ah yes,
The peerless woodland King.
Cicely Mary Parker
10 Comments CherryPie on May 12th 2011
Filed under Out & About
The Sweetest of Flowers
The bluebell is the sweetest of flowers,
That waves in summer air;
Its blossoms have the mightiest power,
To sooth my spirit’s care.
Emily Bronte
12 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2011
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Bluebells
On my recent visit to Attingham Park I enjoyed the walk along the Bluebell Trail. This took in both the native bluebell and the Spanish invader, a signboard along the trail explained in detail:
Our native bluebell is a typical ‘Atlantic’ species growing only in the moist conditions of Western Europe and reaching its peak of [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
Baddesley Clinton – Glasshouses
The glasshouses are Victorian, one contains two surviving Black Hamburg vines and the others are used to store house-plants and more tender bedding plants.
4 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2011
