As love grows in you, beauty grows too. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
Archive for the tag 'Powis Castle'
8 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2012
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Logic will get you from A-B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2012
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Wyverns with Hands Couped
These wrought iron gates known as ‘The Bodley Gates’ was given by Violet, Lady Powis as a birthday present to her husband. It is a copy by G. F. Bodley of the early eighteenth century gate shown in a print of Powis House, the family’s London home which was later demolished. The gates [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2012
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The Orangery
The Orangery, built to overwinter citrus fruits, is simply furnished with pots and containers and provides cool felief on hot summer days. The oranges are moved outside once fear of frost is past. The exterior walls are festooned with yellow Bankstian rose and buff ‘Gloire de Dijon’, passion flowers and tubular flowered eccremocarpus. [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2012
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Nature’s Perfection…
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 12th 2012
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The Aviary Terrace
The eighteenth-century lead urns and shepherds on the Aviary Terrace are from the workshop of the Flemish sculptor John van Nost. The statues have been restored and painted with a finish resembling weathered lead although they were probably originally painted in more life-like colours.
11 Comments CherryPie on Apr 10th 2012
