Archive for the tag 'Shropshire'
Filed under Anecdotes
A Window of Opportunity
After taking my mum for her second Covid vaccination and before a garden get together with family members I had a window of opportunity to take advantage of the glorious sunshine.
I walked to my favourite local pool and sat for a while enjoying the sounds of nature. I watched fish swimming just under the surface [...]
5 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2021
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Out & About
Dorothy Clive Gardens…
… on a sunny Sunday afternoon
The garden’s initial creation lay in Colonel Harry Clive’s wartime decision of 1940, to provide his ailing wife – Dorothy – with a ‘series of interesting walks’ as she battled with Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately Dorothy died in 1942 but Colonel Clive continued work apace throughout the 1940s and 1950s, especially [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2021
Filed under Out & About, This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
Comments Off CherryPie on Apr 18th 2021
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Exploring New Pathways
Part of this walk took me along fully urban routes rather than my more normal semi-urban routes. I did not photograph the fully urban areas. I only walked them to get my bearings on how to link local pathways together. My explorations led to a 7 mile walk in the afternoon sunshine.
It was not the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 15th 2021
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Graffiti Walk
I started my graffiti walk at Leegomery Centre, walking along the Silkin Way. The first graffiti that I noticed was on the pathway just beyond the plunge pool.
I will only share some of the graffiti because I don’t wish to promote the conspiracy theory/political message that the graffiti artist was promoting. Some of the graffiti [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 13th 2021
